Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in California

Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by mcny on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:11PM (#16694938)

I absolutely agree that some lives will be lost in the name of progress. I also hate the NIMBY ism showing up in these threads. However, I don't care for Uber or its ambition. I'm more worried that Uber's negligence will set the whole industry back with a public backlash.

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Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by scoggs on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:30PM (#16695018)

I think the most uncomfortable part that people won't bring up is the fact that cars are essentially high speed, high weight metal death machines on wheels.

Just a quick Google search and the first results give me this info:

>Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day. An additional 20-50 million are injured or disabled. More than half of all road traffic deaths occur among young adults ages 15-44.

From this page: http://asirt.org/initiatives/informing-road-users/road-safet...

Of course unmanned driving tests will happen at a very, very small fraction of the amount compared with manned drivers we have to pull stats from but I don't think it will take long, if the unmanned tests persist enough to conjure up the required amount of data needed to make a legitimate comparison to prove that unmanned driving will be markedly safer.

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Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by selectodude on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:29AM (#16695568)

>Over 90% of all road fatalities occur in low and middle-income countries, which have less than half of the world's vehicles.

The only person who died in a road fatality in phoenix that day was killed by a self driving car.

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Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by lmm on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @04:32AM (#16696304)

And how about in the rest of Arizona and/or the rest of the week?

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Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by CydeWeys on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @12:25AM (#16695279)

To be clear, I personally don't espouse these "NIMBY"ist ideas, I'm just pointing out that they exist and that they will be a real problem for widespread deployment of autonomous vehicles.

Uber, with their recklessness, is inflaming them a lot.

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