Yup, because it’s awesome when American businesses go bankrupt!

K but how many people have been killed by people driving their own cars? That experiment has clearly failed, yet here we remain.

An ICE car hitting the same barrier at the same speed would have likely killed all occupants by shoving the engine into the trunk.

So Google wants to run these cars for hundreds of thousands of miles and they chose... Jaguar? That’s a bold strategy cotton.

Apparently Mother Nature told to that old blue Lada:

Congratulations, Mr. Rosin, on COTD! I would like to gift you with a Tesla which this lovely lady will deliver with no fighting involved.

Authorities already said Uber is not at fault. Now we know LIDAR is not at fault either. Driver was bored staring at gadgets on dashboard and played solitaire instead - also not at fault. No way Volvo is at fault. Bicycle and victim are not at fault.

The issue, he said, is that the tech quite likely “classified her as something other than a stationary object.”

Congratulations, Mr. Sid Bridge, on COTD! I would like to gift you with a Cadillac which this lovely lady will deliver after leaning on its side.

Unless it is 2 people staring at the road the whole time with 2 sets of controls (Which it doesn’t sound like it is) I am not sure it makes much difference and certainly not in the Tempe crash. This site is sure pushing out at Uber when very few facts are know yet.

Not a good analogy. Uber is a tech company developing new tech. Questions should be asked but this article saying Uber has no business here is stupid.

I can’t wait for Jalopnik’s own $700 self-driving Jeep Wagoneer!

Fuck this constant anti-Uber rhetoric. Usually I don’t bother to comment but this is quite ridiculous. Yes, someone died. That is unfortunate, and steps should be taken to prevent that but this is progress in the real world. You make it seem like that never happens in other industries: aerospace, rail, construction...…

just another revenue stream for these companies.

This is a bit funny coming from a company that has a history of acting a bit recklessly, including wrecking a press vehicle, and then it was waived off like “Eh, things happen.”

But when you look at the company’s extensive track record of being irresponsible, exploitative and downright scummy, it’s easy to wonder why anyone is okay with Uber testing self-driving cars at all.

Tens of thousands of deaths and millions of accidents prove that we (as a society) probably do need it.

40,000 people died in car accidents in the US last year. We absolutely do need it.

This one accident is providing way too much content. I’m already bored.

Good luck stopping the future, mate.