• Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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    11 months ago

    Also while I’m here,

    A self driving car dragging a victim is the silicon valley ethos of “move fast and break things” applied to human.

    Self-driving cars require a strong engineering culture to do right, one that is clear was entirely absent at Cruise from this report.

    Did they even consider the possibility of a pedestrian being dragged / run over when designing their software? Because that sounds like kiiinda an obvious thing to consider. The most fundamental rule of the road is not to drive where you can’t see, and it seems like Cruise violated this by designing a car completely unaware of what is beneath it.

    Even toddlers have object permanence.