Re:Uber dismissed warnings about its illegal self-driving te...
by deathanatos on Monday February 27, 2017 @09:11PM
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> Self driving cars will save millions of lives. We need to speed this up.
The DMV doesn't appear to be asking them to slow down. The DMV appears to be asking them get a $150 permit, and to be transparent about errors their software makes.
> When does HN normally love regulations so much?
CA's regulations seem incredibly friendly towards autonomous vehicles; it could have been a legal grey area, but from everything I've read (and seen with Google's testing in Mountain View), the DMV's policies seem acceptable.
Software that is going to be responsible for people's lives should be transparent, and I've yet to see it demonstrated how the DMV's requirements even approach onerous. Like the article mentions, other companies such as Google seem to have no issue complying. (And, from what I've seen of Google reporting of Waymo's incidents, most of their incident reports seem to suggest that their vehicles are doing a job that surpasses my expectations of where they would be. What little we know of Uber's does not.)
The DMV doesn't appear to be asking them to slow down. The DMV appears to be asking them get a $150 permit, and to be transparent about errors their software makes.
> When does HN normally love regulations so much?
CA's regulations seem incredibly friendly towards autonomous vehicles; it could have been a legal grey area, but from everything I've read (and seen with Google's testing in Mountain View), the DMV's policies seem acceptable.
Software that is going to be responsible for people's lives should be transparent, and I've yet to see it demonstrated how the DMV's requirements even approach onerous. Like the article mentions, other companies such as Google seem to have no issue complying. (And, from what I've seen of Google reporting of Waymo's incidents, most of their incident reports seem to suggest that their vehicles are doing a job that surpasses my expectations of where they would be. What little we know of Uber's does not.)