Waymo 'driverless' taxi ploughs into London crime scene after double stabbing

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/waymo-driverless-taxi-crashes-into-london-crime-scene-harlesden-b1279816.html

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CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 16 pts · 104d (4 replies)

A spokesman for Waymo told the Daily Mail the car was being manually driven at the time – and that the driver involved had been suspended. 

He said “initial analysis suggests” the car would have identified the danger and stopped had it been in automated mode.

Sure, blame the human.

ech@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 104d (2 replies)

That's literally their job - to control the car if it starts driving erratically and, more to the point, to take blame/confuse culpability in the event of an incident. Same goes for the code auditors babysitting the algorithms that are putting them out of work. I know "a job's a job", but this is just offering yourself up for sacrifice.

luisgutz@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 102d (1 reply)

Nearly: Their job is to take the blame when the machine fails.

ech@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 102d

...yes, that's what I said.

jimmy90@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 104d

human was driving the car

not a native english reader?

DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 104d

IRL Delamain.