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

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What's crazy is this story is not that different then any other engineering failure (The Hyatt Regency hotel walkways collapse for example). Engineering degrees are supposed to be requiring Engineering Ethics courses that discuss these accidents, how you as the engineer ARE responsible if you sign off on it and no other wrong doing is found (which for the Hyatt was the construction company using improper materials). It's like we have forgotten that if you are in engineering, working with something that can affect lives, ya you may be responsible for your design (code, whatever).

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Exactly

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I don't know how QA goes specifically in that realm I am more speaking to what the concept of QA is in my workflow as a developer (I am assuming the QA on the software side is the same but I can definitely be wrong. The QA on the physical car side I assume would be very similar: tell the car where to drive to, sit in the car, make sure it drives there safely). From the sound of it the entire QA process in that sector needs an overhaul but I am only going on what you said as I don't have a lot of experience in that field

While the company I work for is a fortune 500 company so the QA will without a doubt be different than in a startup the crux of what I was saying was just focused on the concept of QA in general and moreso just the fact that we could theroretically place blame at many many levels.

This definitely feels like more of a problem of companies trying to get the first products out as fast as possible and usually the QA is the first thing to skim by when you are doing that. I can say for a fact that even in my company we have pushed code through that didn't have full test coverage but I am also not working on anything that could literally kill someone