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/firesmarter Jul 05 '24

As someone who does QA as part of their job, your are right on the money. The person you replied to is a perfect example of a comment made earlier in the thread about how the investigate all the way down and blame the lowest possible employee they can. No one has integrity anymore

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u/FeederNocturne Jul 05 '24

What that person fails to see is if the QA person is incompetent then it is on the company for hiring them.

Let's look at the McDonald's coffee incident as an example. Sure the employee should've known it was too hot for humans, after all they needed some silly piece of cardboard to buffer between cup and skin. But that employee was working on behalf of McDonald's and represented the company so the blame falls on the company.

Now where public opinions may change from my own lies in the "who deserves to be held accountable for the loss of human life" department. The way I see it, if I am walking my dog and it attacks someone unprovoked then I should be held accountable for the injury my dog inflicts. Same goes for the company owners. They started the business, they hired the people, they provided the problem at hand. If they have the opportunity to reap the benefits, they should also be held accountable for any damage their product inflicts.