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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.
You know with all the strange developments after 9/11 rainbowlution leading us towards equality regime of CIA lemon party gestapo where even war equals peace, freedom equals slavery, ignorance equals strength, humans equal bioweapon program pervertariat monsters, etc.. - you have to consider possibility of very unobvious lulzboat. You know maybe just maybe those cars are not "self-driving". Maybe there is some sort of "avatar" type situation where some strange men stare remotely at goats, scapegoats, pet goats, etc.. I could go into speculation mode, but it's not productive as there is no solid ground to stand on. In other words flat earth theory is just as valid as the theory that sun revolves around the earth. Maybe they are not talking about the planet, but such phrase serves as lever of encryption to talk about flat ears... You know if they are waging warfare according to rules and regulations of kung fu hustle. Maybe it's about earth that is void from mountains, ravines and recessions. In this case raising oceans is not about melting ice...
I don't care who goes first. Just so the MAD between Ds and Rs is resolved and they _all_ go the end.
But I'm not holding my breath. Trump will skate just like Clinton, Cheney, Clinton (the other one), Obama etc etc etc. It's just the nature of mutually assured destruction.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'