Should-Read: Kevin Drum: Uber Really Shouldn���t Be In th...

Should-Read: Kevin Drum: Uber Really Shouldn���t Be In the Driverless Car Business: "The fact that it���s an Uber car doesn���t surprise me. They���re exactly the kind of company that would cut corners...

...cheap optics, lousy safety drivers, pushing to drive at night before the software is ready, etc. A corporate culture that���s built to expand their taxi service no matter who gets hurt or who complains might build a good taxi service, but it���s the worst possible culture for mission-critical software.... Uber famously has a corporate culture built around being a bull in a china shop.... This kind of culture might be OK for, say, Facebook, which doesn���t kill people if there are glitches in its apps. But if you���re launching a satellite into space or putting a driverless car on the road, there���s a whole different development and testing ethos involved. Uber just doesn���t have that. I���d barely trust them to develop software for a driverless golf cart, let alone a driverless car...