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posted by Fnord666 on Monday March 19 2018, @10:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the bound-to-happen dept.
 
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  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday March 20 2018, @04:41PM (2 children)

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Tuesday March 20 2018, @04:41PM (#655469) Journal

    I'm curious.

    If this were medicine or nursing you'd have Institutional Review Boards and required justifications before any drug or technique comes close to a human being. Even then there are errors.
    If this were aviation you'd have gobs of FAA requirements and licensing to complete before a plane is allowed to fly even with a test pilot. Even then there are errors.
    If this were Facebook you'd.... ok. Bad example but semi-legitimate parallel I hope.

    And the point is: Who has processed the ethics of allowing Uber (and Google and....) to be driving their experimental autonomous cars in live traffic with live pedestrians? Yes, momentary pause for hatred of bureaucracy we all have and I am preaching Libertarian heresy here. But regulation and ethics helps to limit negative impacts of experimental things. What regulations do autonomous car companies face?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @05:23PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @05:23PM (#655504)

    Regulations, ethics review boards? Ha! The big tech companies lobby state gov't and get permission. There may be some additional hand waving, but I think it is another case where money talks.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @05:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @05:25PM (#655506)

      Replying to my own AC comment -- I almost forgot that Uber was caught testing self-driving cars without getting any permission -- was that in the SF area or somewhere else in California?