Self Driving Cars and Uber's software: Decisions made by engineers and managers to prioritize comfort of passengers over unreliable false positive detection algorithms

Pontifications

"[I hate this framing. It's not the software that failed, it's the engineers who designed the software that failed. Decisions made by engineers and managers to prioritize comfort of passengers over unreliable false positive detection algorithms is the real story here.](https://twitter.com/skip_sf/status/999782839657758720)"

I have a feeling this kind of issue is going to come up more and more. Need government regulation to ensure safety for everyone including pedestrians and bicyclists.