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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by kmonsen on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @02:58PM (#21466492)
Why are the cars even at the roads when it was fairly clear this could happen?
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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by KingMachiavelli on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:57PM (#21467171)
Because it's no more risk than just driving a regular car on the road? Uber employs/contracts thousands of regular people to drive customers around and I'm sure some of them have had accidents as well - they just don't make the news as much.

There is this secondary issue that partially autonomous cars give the driver a false sense of safety but that's not unique to this case either.

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