re: #66 JordanRules

Uber is suspended from autonomous vehicle testing after last week’s fatal crash.

Good plan. Uber is not using systems capable of on-road tests. While the real self-driving cars go thousands of miles without human intervention, Uber’s tech struggles to make it a couple of blocks.

They’re only allowed to do this because AZ is a state that chooses liberty over safety just about every time. This is reflected in their super-lax gun-laws, drivers-license laws that let you go decades without renewal, and letting completely untested tech onto their roads. A real state would have monitored them closely and shut them down when their cars failed to work.

Uber should leave this to the big boys, but their execs want self-driving cars now at the least expense, and the techs are trying to deliver when they should recognize their limits and say no.

The real driverless cars can avoid accidents like the one that got Uber’s self-driving tests shut down.