elaborateModes

I mean, at every level, this is just fucking beyond any kind of word for stupid.

So, cars can just blast into people now. Cars have the right of way by default, because faceless corporations can mandate that self driving cars simply MUST happen, on all public roads. There are no direct consequences for criminal negligence to a large business with a multi-million dollar legal department, even if fines bankrupt the company, even if the corporate veil is pierced.

This will happen again. More people will die in the face of simple profiteering arms races. Nothing new; consider Blackwater in Iraq.

Okay fine. But programming a car to drive itself, and what... You're telling me they forgot to have it avoid solid objects?

Really? Hazard avoidance and collision detection for obstacles is not a thing?

Listen. If this must happen, why, why, why do these inept brad and chad companies just have to reinvent the wheel? Haven't we had terrain following radar in aviation, cruise missiles and nuclear prog...