Uber Wants To Resume Self-Driving Car Tests On Public Roads (go.com) 31
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: Nearly eight months after one of its autonomous test vehicles hit and killed an Arizona pedestrian, Uber wants to resume testing on public roads. The company has filed an application on with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to test in Pittsburgh, and it has issued a lengthy safety report pledging to put two human backup drivers in each vehicle and take a raft of other precautions to make the vehicles safe. Among the other precautions Uber will take are keeping the autonomous vehicle system engaged at all times and activating the Volvo's automatic emergency braking system as a backup. In addition, Uber is requiring more technical training and expertise of employees sitting behind the wheel of the vehicles, according to a 70-page safety report the company released Friday. "Our goal is to really work to regain that trust and to work to help move the entire industry forward," Noah Zych, Uber's head of system safety for self-driving cars, said in an interview. "We think the right thing to do is to be open and transparent about the things that we are doing."
Anyone but Uber. (Score:5, Informative)
If there is Uber is associated with anything then it's shady business practices. Seriously, I would trust anyone else with engineers working on this more than Uber. If anything is going to impede the rapid progress on self-driving cars then it's going to be a reputation for killing people that was earned by these corner-cutting fools that are out to make a buck without regard for consequence.
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Second question.. what's stopping taxi companies from creating a unified ride hailing website?
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Really? Not the asshat who disabled the automated emergency braking system, preventing the self-driving car from braking to avoid the woman that the system actually did detect before it hit her?
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Let's see...
Disabled automatic braking
Configured the system to error on the side of driving
Tampered with the video to artificially darken it before it was released tot he press
Had no oversight of the "driver"
"Driver" is a term used *very* loosely, considering that they were *reading* when the car collided.
System *and* driver does not read *specific* warning signs warning of the possibility of night bike riders.
It was a murder machine. In many ways, this system was specifically set up to murder people. The
And I want a unicorn pony (Score:2)
Jail is too good for Uber.
Free Testing?!? (Score:3)
Wait a fucking minute here. They want to test the vehicles with us as part of the experiment. The test incorporates using the rest of us a test subjects, our lives, our vehicles, included in their experiments for fucking free, seriously WTF? Fuck off, no testing without asking for volunteers and then why the fuck free, what do corporations do for fucking free, they are people, we are people, why are we used as test subjects for fucking free. Want to test your autonomous vehicle alongside my vehicle, then fucking pay me fuckers. NO FREE TEST SUBJECTS, fuck the corporations.
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When your daughter drives, she is using me as a test subject without my consent - by your argument, anyway.
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I envision a big rubber duck (Score:5, Funny)
The new Volvo will be encased in a large bright yellow rubber duck bumper system. And a bright flashing light on a pole overhead. The two drivers will actually walk in front of the vehicle and brush the road as they pull the car on a little leash.
Give up. Or change the name.
Unemployed Drivers (Score:2)
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If corporations are people too (I don't agree with this, but devil's advocate here), how long would a person have been kept off the road after that Arizona accident? And yes, I know the person was crossing at night and not at a crosswalk, and not watching, but there were multiple factors to the "accident".
Test it on Island of Uber Execs (Score:2)