I actually believe it does take a village to raise a child. But it sure as hell doesn’t take my village for you to test your self-driving car.
No, I’m still not over Uber testing its self-driving technology in Tempe, Arizona in March of 2018. With the so-called safety driver behind the wheel as the car ferried itself around the city, a woman crossing the street with, not on, her bicycle was killed.
The vehicle never even slowed. “Uber had disabled Volvo’s automatic emergency braking system in order to ‘reduce potential for erratic vehicle behavior,’” according to The Verge. The safety driver was watching The Voice on her phone, and Uber had previously cut the number of safety drivers in their experiments from two to one.
Hey, Uber? How do I hate thee, let me count the ways.
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