alt Hacker NewsI’m ideologically alighted with you but that isn’t an argument in good faith. We let convicted murderers buy cars.
Your quip about stock options is actually funny, because if the engineers were killing people then those stock options shouldn’t be worth so much.
Looking at the massive downvote of my comment and all the subsequent replies, lots of people here missed their MIT class of Ethics in Software Engineering...
In safety critical engineering, ethics are not opinions but process guarantees. Waymo system is ML dominant, non deterministic, and validated statistically, without a public end to end safety case, formal failure bounds, or provably safe fallback under unknown conditions.
Shipping anyway is not a technical necessity but a choice to externalize unbounded risk onto non consenting bystanders. Comparing that to bad human drivers or stock prices misses the point that this about what risks you knowingly impose.
Looks like the Waymo Software team could apply at Boeing. I hear they are hiring....