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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by dubbel on Thursday May 24, 2018 @03:57PM (#17147710)
> It is the case that even very good driverless cars of the future will cause fatalities now and then. Even if they're safer than human drivers.

And that is why I am so mad at Uber. They are compromising the public trust in autonomous cars with their reckless release policy. And thereby potentially endangering even more lives, as we have to convince the public of the advantages of this technology.

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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by sanderjd on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:23PM (#17148035)
I agree with all of this except the tense: haven't they shut the whole thing down at this point with no immediate plans to start it up again? Or am I mis-remembering that.
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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by bagels on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:58PM (#17148354)
They were testing in three places: San Francisco, Arizona, and Pittsburgh. They didn't want to get a license from California (probably because they couldn't follow the safety regulations), so they threw a tantrum and moved to AZ. Then after this fatality, they shut the AZ program down and are just testing in Pittsburgh.
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Re:Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set t... by aetherson on Thursday May 24, 2018 @05:29PM (#17148586)
That's not true. They shut down everywhere after this fatality. They just said that they'll shut down AZ permanently (not that AZ would probably let them do it anyway), and resume testing in Pittsburgh sometime soon, in a more limited way (which apparently the Pittsburgh mayor isn't wild about).
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