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by tim-tday 28 days ago
Deploying self driving cars too early will kill people. The uber self driving cars were operating in SF without a permit (they told the dmv the rules didn’t apply to them). The cars didn’t know how to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks. I stepped into the garage to ask them to file a bug report. I got laughed out of the place. Lucky CA DMV responded to their assertion that the self driving permit didn’t apply to them by saying “we appear to have issued these vehicle registrations in error. They are hereby revoked”

Tech companies love to push tech out before it’s finished. There’s a whole philosophy of doing that. Unfortunately for safety related things that means people will die.

Full Self Driving has killed half a dozen people that I know of. It was pushed out early and people died because of it.