Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street

Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by SilasX on Monday March 19, 2018 @05:18PM (#16623290)

>Why can a private for profit company "test" their systems on the public roads?

Some phase of testing will necessarily be of public roads. The fact that they started that phase prematurely doesn't somehow mean that "private for profit companies" should never test on public roads.

Boeing tests new airplanes in the public airspace too, over public areas.

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by rpmcb on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:12PM (#16623734)

Boeing certainly tests in public airspace, but only as part of a standardized certification process overseen by the US government - a process and set of regulations that are written in blood.

Uber abides by no such testing standardization.

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Re:Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street by SilasX on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:31PM (#16623905)

Which would be a different standard than the one I was criticizing.

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