Comment by sbierwagen
9 years ago
Classic engineering ethics problem. Management says they have to ship "right now", but you know that if you do, 1 in a 1000 customers will die. If you wait a couple years, that'll go down to 1 in 1000000, but your company might go bankrupt.
Engineers at Takata and in GM's ignition key department made one choice, Waymo seems to be making the other.
Waymo has the benefit of not going bankrupt if they wait another couple years..
Oh? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-alphabet-moonshot-project...
The whole reason the car project got spun out into Waymo was to fast-track commercialization. They do not in fact have an infinite amount of money.