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posted by on Sunday February 12 2017, @08:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the can't-get-caught-if-you're-not-cheating dept.

A French businessman is suing Uber for 45 million euros, for destroying his marriage.

It seems that he installed the Uber app on his wife's phone, used it once, and then logged out. Later, when using the app on his own phone to arrange tête-à-têtes with his mistress, his wife received Uber notifications, and figured out what was going on. Uber attributes this to a bug in their software specifically related to an older version of iOS.

What do soylentils think generally about the liability of tech companies for bugs in their software? Some say liability is needed to force some responsibility; others say it would be the death of the software industry as we know it.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @11:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @11:19PM (#466342)

    On the one hand if there is too much liability no one would release a self driving car and overall driving will remain as unreliable as your average human driver since humans will continue to drive. We will never progress past that. On the other hand if there is no liability whatsoever self driving cars will be less reliable than your average human drivers and so we might as well keep driving.

    You need to find the right balance. A balance that lets the technology move forward without placing overly burdensome liability on the companies that make it yet still ensures a good degree of reliability at least greater than that of an average human. As the technology advances even more and more then stricter and stricter standards can be required. You can start with requiring them to be twice as reliable as an average human. Eventually require them to become thee times more reliable. Four times as the technology matures more. etc...