Unless someone goes to jail criminal charges mean nothing.
Until more people realize this is nothing but a distraction, more whistleblowers will end up dead.
You know, the kinds of whistleblowers that would help secure criminal convictions.
and the rent a car place will sue the renter to get back what they got sued for or for the cost to fix there car.
When the average household struggles to pay for a $400 unexpected bill, maybe we can stop trying to dismiss current and future harm by way of litigation. No, you’re not going to make the average person “whole” again after they financially suffered for years simply waiting for their day in court. Which will soon be several years longer with everyone suing everyone.
Driverless car companies will grow tired of the legal threat and simply do what most do now; remove your right to litigation in the EULA you’ll never read. At that point (when human drivers are illegal) you’ll have two options. Take the personal risk and ride, or get out and walk.
The EULA doesn't matter to the other party. The other party is going to sue who has the biggest pockets, and because Waymo made the AI that actually moved the vehicle, they will be hauled into court. The other party isn't bound by any ToS or EULA.
Driverless companies won’t bother. You’ll just find one day that all manner of arbitration has either been waived or forced in their favor via the EULA you won’t bother to read, and will Agree to the moment the driverless car door opens.
What makes you think Waymo did not pay for all of the damages?
What makes you assume once harm becomes an acceptable “norm” they’ll continue to agree to do so easily?. Think suing one of these huge corporations is going to get easier in the future, or do you think you’ll suddenly find you waived your right to sue when you opened a driverless door and Agreed to the EULA you didn’t read?
All autonomous cars have to do in order to gain full legal support and compliance, is prove they kill less than humans do. If 30,000 deaths a year is basically the “norm” mostly ignored today in America, rest assured that 10,000 deaths will be viewed as a huge win no matter how they might happen.
If a human driver pulled that shit, exactly no one would be talking about how they “may” have violated traffic laws. The human driver would be facing several traffic infractions, points on license, insurance penalties, and possibly civil or criminal charges.
Human drivers pull that shit all the time, and they do not face infractions/fines/points/etc because they aren't recorded 24/7 and don't have an obligation to self report every incident.
Do you think every human who has drifted into oncoming traffic/hit a parked car/gone into a construction zone has called up the police after to self report?
Do you expect every company to bend over and simply pay out when their robotic driving force screws up, especially when driving safety will be the de facto standard by which driverless companies will brag they are the better choice vs. the competition? Hilarious you assume corporations “self-report” their crime so much better than individuals (cough, Big Tobacco, wheeze) They’re gonna fuck people over with nothing but a damn EULA at the end of the day. You’ll likely waive all rights when you Agree to open a driverless car door. Sad part is you likely already know this is exactly what Greed is gonna do.
Crashing into parked cars, drifting over into oncoming traffic, intruding into construction zones
This is exactly how humans drive. This is just Waymo catching up to reality.
True, but there’s one glaring difference:
all this "unexpected behavior" from Waymo's self-driving vehicles may be violating traffic laws
If a human driver pulled that shit, exactly no one would be talking about how they “may” have violated traffic laws. The human driver would be facing several traffic infractions, points on license, insurance penalties, and possibly civil or criminal charges.
Now explain how in the hell we make that fair in the future for victims.
Getting those expensive senior employees to resign and leave themselves, thus saving on severance and bad PR of a layoff, is exactly the point of the RTO mandates. It is naive to think that it is some kind of "misunderstandings" of the executives.
Perhaps that misunderstanding will be more clear when the company finds themselves choking on a 300% increase in consulting costs after failing to realize the actual impact of those employees who left rather easily.
Its ironic when an expensive senior CEO will acknowledge an employee as “senior” and “expensive” while forgetting the actual reasons they earned those monikers.
It would be very human to find the human race assuming that irony born from ignorance, would not be part of our own epitaph.
I expect nothing less than for us humans to prophesize about our own demise and yet not see it coming. Ever.
Sorry your post contained too many words and I zoned out half way through the first sentence, can you convey what you said in a 15 second interpretive dance and post it on TikTok so everyone can understand?
How right you are. What was I thinking in more than 140 characters?
(Still blows me away that Vine couldn’t even manage to entertain this generation with a six second time limit. Even bull riders expect a longer performance.)
OnlyFans at work doesn't sound safe for work.
LOL, do you really need to pledge to Thi Slappa U to confirm what kind of work is going on at the old OF campus? Pretty sure they define “safe for work” as having a clean STD screening.
and every urban center in the country has safe public transportation of some form. There's no reason for people to take the unnecessary risk of walking places when safe, sensible vehicular transportation is available.
Might want to ride that urban transportation a bit more before you assume about safety. 2AM can be unsafe for humans even if the damn car is on rails.
And we’re here talking about how an autonomous car provider barely made their way legally back onto the roadways after attempting to drag a human to their death. Perhaps dial back that safe, sensible bragging a bit. Not even Cruise’s competition is that arrogant right now.
Like trying to convince the uninformed back in the day that AOL keywords weren’t really the same thing as an internet search, there is a significant difference between “the internet” and social media. Which is why everyone from parents to psychologists are laughing at the notion that the internet is generally “good for you.”
Of course, messing with sacred cows will get you on the establishment shit list like nothing else, so be prepared to pull a Snowden and abscond to Russia. Or something.
Well now. Thats some plan. Or something.
As always, it's all about money. If businesses see even the slightest potential to lay off people and reduce cost, they will. And that's what's it's all about. Not supporting people. Not creating new, innovative solutions. It's all about money.
Sure wish someone could convince Premature Greed that a global 25% unemployment rate, will make far more chaos than money.
Humans who spend the first 18 years of their lives in education, enjoy mocking the AI toddler without realizing it’s still in school.
Given the end goal of AI and the relentless human pursuit of it, tell me. How hard do you really think it’s going to be, to get AI to understand something bound by logic? One of the first things we humans were forced to do to survive, was learn how the human mind works. AI may become better at coding out of nothing but sheer curiosity that were ironically trying to program to emulate.
Lets hope we can keep laughing, because jealousy will eventually turn to rage. Hell, look at us now. AI is still a toddler and we’re already crying for a pause.
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." -- Albert Einstein
