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Re:Uber backup driver indicted in 2018 self-driving crash th... by jameslk on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:30AM (#24489832)
> After the crash, police obtained search warrants for Vasquez's cellphones as well as records from the video streaming services Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu. The investigation concluded that because the data showed she was streaming The Voice over Hulu at the time of the collision, and the driver-facing camera in the Volvo showed "her face appears to react and show a smirk or laugh at various points during the time she is looking down", Vasquez may have been distracted from her primary job of monitoring road and vehicle conditions.[0]

That poor person, who's job it was to watch the road, seems to have been watching Hulu instead. That's a pretty willful disregard for their job and for other's lives. I don't have much pity for them if this is the case.

I get your point about moral crumple zones and I suppose there's cases one could to point to demonstrate it, but this is definitely not a very good example of it.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg#Distr...

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Re:Uber backup driver indicted in 2018 self-driving crash th... by jakear on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @05:36AM (#24491032)
Agreed.

> "Had the vehicle operator been attentive, she would likely have had sufficient time to detect and react to the crossing pedestrian to avoid the crash or mitigate the impact," the November 2019 NTSB report stated.

This isn’t a case of the Uber performing some split-second error that needed immediate correction then blaming the driver when that didn’t happen, the way so many in this thread seem to want to make it out to be. This is a person whose job it was to watch the road watching Hulu instead and as a result failing to react to developing conditions that, if NTSB is to be believed (and I trust them a whole lot more than the randos commenting here), could have easily been prevented by an attentive driver.

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