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If there's one company who hasn't demonstrated it's learned from its mistakes it's Uber.

But let's extrapolate. Say one day there are 20 self driving car companies. Should they be required to share what they learn so the same mistakes aren't repeated by each company or does the competitive advantage outweigh the public benefit from this type of information sharing?




Nice case for a "Reductio ad Absurdum":

Should "not killing pedestrians" be a competitive advantage? No. It should be mandatory for every vehicle.

Therefore,we should make sure that everything works towards this goal, including sharing data!


Federal regulation demanding shared accident databases wouldn't be the worst thing...


What mistakes has Uber not learned from recently? They changed their leadership. That shows some learning.


"recently" is a pretty big caveat to throw in there. Historically Uber hasn't changed any of their behaviour until they've been caught doing something. Let's wait and see how they react to something like this.


Good point, but I added that in because I think recent is the most important for trying to know if something learns from its mistakes.

They seem to be adjusting quite a bit in the last 1-2 years so that is the definition of learning. Otherwise, just showing how companies were once dumb is usually not very useful in knowing how adaptable they are.

I agree that we’ll know better looking back how they react to this event.


I think there is a case for open sourcing the decision making code for this exact reason.


Or does the prospect of onerous regulation outweigh the competitive advantage?




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