Video suggests huge problems with Uber’s driverless car program
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Re: Video suggests huge problems with Uber’s driverless car program
#2Surprising no one.
"win-at-any-cost" and "second place is first looser" (sic) do not cohere with safety.
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#3I have two problems with this article.
1) They make it appear that Uber is a car manufacturer.
2) Even though Uber has not been determined to be at fault, the author seems to want to make it that way anyway.
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#4I don't know, I have seen the video, the woman literally jumps into the road in front of the car. Even if the lidar got the woman it was probably assuming she will not jump into the road in front of the car, a reasonable assumption that any driver would do. I don't understand what people expect, if the car have to slow for any person on the side of road it will not move at all.
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#5> We don't need redundant brakes & steering or a fancy new car; we need better software," wrote engineer Anthony Levandowski to Alphabet CEO Larry Page in January 2016.
Looks like Uber has attracted Levandowski due to his cultural fit.
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#6I have two problems with this article. 1) They make it appear that Uber is a car manufacturer. 2) Even though Uber has not been determined to be at fault, the author seems to want to make it that way anyway.
The author is making a distinction between whether Uber was legally at fault (as stated in the article, likely not) versus whether the accident was avoidable. I agree with the author's position that the accident was likely avoidable.
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#7Uber is the Blackwater of Silicon Valley
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#8"Move fast and break things" is exactly the opposite of what a responsible driver must do.
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#9"Testing" of driverless cars seem to be the wrong way around. Software should try to learn from human drivers: watch them instead of being watched by them.
The way it would work would be: the human is driving and the software is, at the same time, watching the driver and figuring out an action to take. Every time the driver's and the software's behavior differ, is logged and analyzed to figure out why there was a difference and who guessed better.
But the way testing is currently going on, it seems millions of miles are wasted where nothing happens and nothing is learned.
Re: Video suggests huge problems with Uber’s driverless car program
#10Why don’t we require software engineers who work on self driving car software to go through licensing and certification.
And then, if their code results in a death, they are liable and can have their license completely revoked, and they would be unable to work on self driving cars again.