Re:Uber Neglected Simulation Testing on Self-Driving Cars, I...
by wpietri on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @06:08PM
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To test in the real world, they need to be at least as good unless we have strong reason to believe that surplus deaths are the only way to move forward.
We don't have reason to believe that. Even Uber now agrees that more simulation should have been done, and they're trying to catch up. All the necessary data for this could have been gleaned from instrumenting human-driven cars, and then testing the object recognition, object avoidance, and other driving algorithms against the resulting data.
Uber's Arizona death wasn't "human error". It was negligence. They also weren't "behind schedule" in any meaningful sense; some exec picked a too-aggressive goal, and people cut corners in a vain attempt to meet it. They shouldn't just be paying a "market price". They should be facing charges for criminal negligence leading to involuntary manslaughter.
We don't have reason to believe that. Even Uber now agrees that more simulation should have been done, and they're trying to catch up. All the necessary data for this could have been gleaned from instrumenting human-driven cars, and then testing the object recognition, object avoidance, and other driving algorithms against the resulting data.
Uber's Arizona death wasn't "human error". It was negligence. They also weren't "behind schedule" in any meaningful sense; some exec picked a too-aggressive goal, and people cut corners in a vain attempt to meet it. They shouldn't just be paying a "market price". They should be facing charges for criminal negligence leading to involuntary manslaughter.