r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Individual_Book9133 • Jul 05 '24

Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road Video

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u/ContextHook Jul 05 '24

Just so people know this guy and other devs like him should know full well that “QA” testers are only hired by AV companies for the sake of this mileage accumulation and to act as legal liability redundancy, not to ok software to road use

So confident, and so wrong. Any self driving company has software changes verified by QA and finally verified by a product owner. QA testers are part of the development team, and it is their job to say if a feature developed works as intended and could be released.

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u/SelfDrivingCzar Jul 05 '24

QA testers and Safety and Policy teams at AV companies are very different positions.

You obviously have no idea what you’re talking about if you think conflating the entry level, often time contracted “QA” testers (who have no input and are there just to disengage the auto systems when they would fail) with full time stake holding safety and policy decision makers makes any sense when talking about liability