The New York Times has internal Uber documents, confirmed by multiple Uber employees, showing that Uber lied to the public and to regulators by falsely claiming that a self-driving Volvo running a red light on the first day of its operation in San Francisco was caused by human error.
“Our self-driving technology required human intervention. The vehicle operator had time to intervene, but failed to take over before crossing the stop line and manually proceeded through the protected crosswalk.”
I believe this is exactly what people here predicted when Uber originally called it human error. Such a clumsy attempt at being grossly misleading while maybe not technically lying. It self-drove through a red light, just as was reported.
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[ 0.25 ms ] story [ 12.9 ms ] threadThe New York Times has internal Uber documents, confirmed by multiple Uber employees, showing that Uber lied to the public and to regulators by falsely claiming that a self-driving Volvo running a red light on the first day of its operation in San Francisco was caused by human error.
I believe this is exactly what people here predicted when Uber originally called it human error. Such a clumsy attempt at being grossly misleading while maybe not technically lying. It self-drove through a red light, just as was reported.