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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by netsharc on Monday March 19, 2018 @01:07PM (#16620219)
Not intentionally doing that, but, intentionally ignoring bugs.

"Sir, we have several bugs, one of them would cause the car to run a red in the following conditions... [fictional made-up condition: in case it sees a clown car with Brad Pitt wearing a pink dress in it]".

"What are the chances of that ever happening? Ship it!".

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by dpwm on Monday March 19, 2018 @01:26PM (#16620522)
I somewhat doubt they even know or care that there might be bugs before they do something awful. It's like they're using the public highway as their simulator.

I don't know if this job ad for a self-driving simulation software engineer is still current, but it is somewhat worrying given the broad scope of the role they appear to be advertising for.

[0] https://www.uber.com/en-US/careers/list/27029/

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