Comment on Waymo Forced to Halt Overnight Operations As Punishment for Causing Nonstop Ruckus
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 5 days agoThe problem isn’t that nobody is able to be punished, its that the punishment isn’t anywhere near severe enough to incentivize fixing the issues that caused grandma to get hit.
When negligence is a small fine and a finger wag of “make sure this doesn’t happen again”, they aren’t going to do more than lip service claiming they will fix the issue, maybe fire someone at the bottom of the ladder to prove their sincerity.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I think you’re both right. What’s really important is the lives at stake, only the software can really meaningfully improve, but the incentives aren’t there right now to make those improvements happen.
One thing to consider though, is the incentives can always be tweaked. Maybe the robo taxi company barely blinks at a $100,000 fine, they chuckle about a $1 million fine, do they still laugh about a $50 million fine? They may really start to sweat over a $200 million fine. And hey, I can think of larger numbers, we can always provide them a better incentive (while financing the state).