"The self-driving vehicle community has long discussed the potential dangers of a "Hindenberg" for self-driving vehicles, Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies self-driving cars, wrote in an email, referring to the hydrogen-filled airship’s catastrophic explosion in 1937.
"It’s no surprise that everyone is trying to distance themselves from Uber," Smith said. "There are really two distinct questions: Are Uber’s actions defensible? And does anyone benefit by defending Uber? In this instance, it seems like the answer to both questions is ‘no.’""
- Date Published:03/29/2018
- Original Publication:Bloomberg