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Notwithstanding a click-baiting take from the headline writer, why on earth would that be a configurable option?


I'm not sure the title is click-baiting; the reality sounds exactly as dire as the headline.

> The agency, which investigates deadly transit accidents, said Uber’s self-driving system determined the need to emergency-brake the car 1.3 seconds before the deadly impact. The NTSB report said that, according to Uber, automatic emergency braking isn’t enabled in order to “reduce the potential for erratic vehicle behavior” and that the system also isn’t designed to alert the operator in case of an emergency.




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