Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street

Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by manmal on Monday March 19, 2018 @04:21PM (#16622711)

I‘m quite sure this would backfire A LOT in terms of brand damage. Uber in a sense made history today and now has actual blood on their hands. And if such a strategy should EVER leak (Dieselgate anyone?), people are going to prison.

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by smartician on Monday March 19, 2018 @04:39PM (#16622923)

GM killed 124 people with faulty ignition switches[1], yet the brand still survived. It's a cost calculation: will the brand damage outweigh the benefit to the company? Sadly, human lives don't factor into that equation.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/10/news/companies/gm-recall-ign...

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by manmal on Monday March 19, 2018 @07:12PM (#16624251)

Sadly, that’s a common occurrence with big automakers.

I can’t say anything about GM‘s rep in the US, but here in Europe they are not doing so well. Chevrolet was killed in 2015, and Vauxhall/Opel are doing only ok-ish. Chevy had SO many recalls in the years before they killed it.

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by erk__ on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:27AM (#16627258)

Opel got bought back to europe by PSA the owners of Citröen and Peugeot in 2017 so they have a chance to turn it around.

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