Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Or you can't design the "perfect system", but boast anyway as if you had, and pay for the PR that say you can.
That seems to be the Uber approach. Very consistent with their whole "square peg in a round hole" entry into the taxi market. (or perhaps "heavy handed" is a better metaphor...)
We do not however know if Waymo software would fail the same way... or the software that GM and others are proposing to use. So all self driving cars cannot be condemned by Uber's poor showing. And Tesla is not a self driving car, so whatever they do also doesn't actually count.
According to the investigators, the sensors did work... the software was the failure item. Gee... no project manager in the world has ever pushed out software "too early," eh? (and yes, people have been killed in other industries by such bad management.)