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I know the scale is different but since this is the first death I’m curious if the percents fall in line.
[1] is distance the right metric?
This may well just be bad luck. But I cannot shake the feeling that if Uber started an ice cream venture, they would store their molasses on a hill in a Boston. The only way to get “humanity” associated with Uber would involve an Uber zeppelin.
Or it’s a conspiracy, because nothing is as threatening to Uber than autonomous cars. This is certain to invite more regulatory scrutiny. Just kidding... I think..
The video says bicyclist and shows a bent bicycle. So pedestrian or bicyclist?
On purpose to protect something "more valuable," or on accident?
I go back and forth with thinking the algorithms in things like self-driving cars should be public. Anything which must make a choice such as smash into bus or smash into bicycle — the public should be aware of the choices the company chooses to implement. Obviously this example is simplistic but it illustrates my point.
Today I’m definitely leaning towards it should be public and scrutinized. Next month I may be worried this would hamper progress.
On the bright side, with an autonomous vehicle, an accident is a learning experience that will benefit other autonomous vehicles.
Striking a pedestrian in a crosswalk is horrible and terrible news. The reality though is how many pedestrians are hit by manual driver's vs automous drivers? On a percentage basis I gotta believe autonomous cars are orders of magnitude safer. Self driving cars aren't going to be perfect. How many people lost their lives in early factories to machines during the industral revolution? Imagine if they had pulled the pl…
yes, but with a human driver you have someone to take responsibility / punish for, what do you do with an alogrithm to provide justice?
Uber's self-driving program seems to be one of the most unethical, most poorly-run in the entire industry. There were plenty of reports before warning us of the questionable quality of their research: cars changing lanes suddenly, blowing red lights, and now one finally killed someone. Every prior incident should have been treated as a serious matter. Waymo et al has had none of these issues. Time to revoke their lic…