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Oh. I hadn't been following the story and had assumed somebody was facing justice over the woman killed by Uber's unsafe self-driving car experiment.

... How silly of me.



You mean the one who was jaywalking and wasn't visible until a split second before she was tragically killed?

Do we afford the same condolences to the tens of thousands of other traffic victims?


This is a very unbalanced idea of what happened. The Uber released video’s exposure was clearly adjusted to make it darker than reality. Also the sight of the “jaywalking” was shown clearly to be a place where people regularly crossed the road. There is a sidewalk that leads and ends right at that spot. So it is clearly a urban planning design issue.

This is not to say that Uber is criminally liable but that it isn’t as clear cut as you may want it to be.


That's the manipulated video Uber put out. Look at contemporaneous video of the same stretch of road others took - actually fairly well lit.




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