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At an All-Hands Meeting, Uber CEO Said The Company Deserves Some Fault After Its Self-Driving Car Killed a Pedestrian (businessinsider.com)
During an all-hands meeting at Uber earlier this week, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and the head of the self-driving car unit, Eric Meyhofer, were questioned by employees over the culture at the self-driving unit. An anonymous reader writes: They asked about allegations of infighting and dysfunction in the unit prior to a tragic accident that killed a pedestrian, based on Business Insider's newly published investigation. (The investigation found that engineers were pressured to "tune" the self-driving car for a smoother ride in preparation of a big year-end demonstration of their progress, but that meant not allowing the car to respond to everything it saw, real or not.) What followed was a strange couple of minutes in which the executives told odd stories and quoted wrong statistics leading up to Khosrowshahi admitting, several times, "we have screwed up."
[...] Khosrowshahi showed his support of his senior leader by saying some negative things about Business Insider. And then he said, "we did screw up" and that "we are radically changing how we develop, how we test, etcetera. So we've gone through changes. We have screwed up." Sources tell Business Insider that Khosrowshahi had not been paying much attention to the self-driving car unit in his first year because he was so busy fighting fires with Uber's main business, but that this is changing now. On Tuesday, Khosrowshahi indicated as much saying, "A year forward from all the controversy that we saw last year, we are better, stronger. And I think ATG is going through that same journey," he said.
[...] Khosrowshahi showed his support of his senior leader by saying some negative things about Business Insider. And then he said, "we did screw up" and that "we are radically changing how we develop, how we test, etcetera. So we've gone through changes. We have screwed up." Sources tell Business Insider that Khosrowshahi had not been paying much attention to the self-driving car unit in his first year because he was so busy fighting fires with Uber's main business, but that this is changing now. On Tuesday, Khosrowshahi indicated as much saying, "A year forward from all the controversy that we saw last year, we are better, stronger. And I think ATG is going through that same journey," he said.
Bullshit. Long disproven statistic.
Cars with lane assist and auto brake have lower accident rates on divided highways than humans in all driving. Which has been turned into the lie you repeat.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Google (or Waymo) might beg to differ.
Perhaps you meant "there are no self driving cars THAT YOU CAN BUY today."
Waymo's director of 'self driving' cars recently said in an interview that 'level 5 self driving cars are impossible.'
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/21...
The money quote: 'But L5 is impossible, said Krafcik.'
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
OK, agree with you it's not murder, but no, a human driver would not have killed the pedestrian. The video that came out shortly after the death has since been revealed to be highly misleading about the conditions that lead to the crash - there was more lighting, the pedestrian's path was clear 6 seconds before the accident, and the speed of the car was such that an emergency brake operation could have kicked in 1.3 seconds before the impact and prevented the accident. 4.7 seconds is plenty of time for a human driver to react.
(Oddly enough, the Volvo's own automatic emergency brake system, which had been disabled to avoid clashes with Uber's own system, would have prevented the accident according to the data available.)
It was very bad, and Uber is 100% liable, but it's hard to see how it's murder given it was clearly an accident.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.