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1/26/2015 | 2:40:26 PM
Attorney: "So you car decided to mow down the mother with the stroller rather than the old man?"
Engineer: "It defaulted to not changing direction if the alternate route is obstructed."
Attorney: "But you could have used the car's computer vision system to override that choice if a stroller is present, correct?"
Engineer: "We could have, I suppose."
Attorney: "But you didn't. Why? Because a child's life wasn't worth the extra man-hours to code that contingency?"
Defense: "Objection, your honor..."
...Companies don't want to be involved in anything like this.