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Re:Waymo Via by stevehawk on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @02:19PM (#22486958)
No regulation was going to prevent a death where developers intentionally disabled all safety checks.
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Re:Waymo Via by henryfjordan on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @02:41PM (#22487221)
What about a regulation requiring reasonable safety checks?
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Re:Waymo Via by hnick on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @05:29PM (#22488855)
Laws don't change outcomes, but they can influence behaviours. Such as a developer not doing the above due to concern of a law.
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Re:Waymo Via by kazinator on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @07:25PM (#22489730)
Regulation can prevent some instances of such disabling.
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