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minus-squareNaibofTabr@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-22 days agoTo be fair, Uber has had a stated goal of running an autonomous taxi service for years. They’ve never really pretended otherwise. They backed off on it when one of their autonomous vehicles killed a woman in Arizona in 2018: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/20/us/self-driving-uber-pedestrian-killed.html …but the goal never changed.
To be fair, Uber has had a stated goal of running an autonomous taxi service for years. They’ve never really pretended otherwise.
They backed off on it when one of their autonomous vehicles killed a woman in Arizona in 2018:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/20/us/self-driving-uber-pedestrian-killed.html
…but the goal never changed.