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Re:An Update on Last Week’s Accident by narag on Saturday March 31, 2018 @07:44AM (#16722879)
While I believe Tesla and the driver are the ultimate source of the accident, I believe CalTrans messed up worse with that barrier.

When reading something like this in sci-fi, I always thought that the stories where over the top and tongue in cheek, to make some other point. Now I see they were real.

Companies are allowed to create robots that kill people. Then we sit around here and discuss how much of the killing is on the the robot's manufacturer, the robot's owner, the street lights and the victim.

Re:An Update on Last Week’s Accident by buvanshak on Saturday March 31, 2018 @01:17PM (#16724148)
> Then we sit around here and discuss how much of the killing is on the the robot's manufacturer, the robot's owner, the street lights and the victim.

You forgot one entity and I think it is a major one.

The people of the world who just stood by and let sdv's on the street with no sort of regulations and tests.

I posted this [1] after the Uber incident, Look at the awesome response from HN community that I have received.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16696681

Re:An Update on Last Week’s Accident by lukeschlather on Saturday March 31, 2018 @10:17AM (#16723378)
Replace "robot" with "car" and it suddenly doesn't sound sci-fi at all.