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We're going to hear more and more that excuse.

"The AI dindu nuttin' wrong."

I watch the homeless from my gym jogging machine perch window. They wander into traffic without looking, the whacko ones scream at the traffic and beat on the cars. Some on bikes are totally unpredictable and wind up weaving across lanes without looking or heeding. What is surprising is that more of them aren't run over every day.

I would trust self driving cars more than humans and their lack of intelligence. Even more hard to trust humans who are drunk, high on drugs, talking or texting while driving/walking, handicapped, children, and what not.

Well, here you go folks. Turns out Uber has a plan to give "Felons a second Chance".

Yeah, the guy-girl-other behind the wheel of the driverless Uber was:

The operator of a self-driving Uber vehicle that fatally struck a woman in Arizona was a convicted felon who served almost four years in the slammer for attempted armed robbery, according to a report.

Rafaela Vasquez, 44, was behind the wheel of a Volvo when it hit Elaine Herzberg, 49, as she was walking a bike outside a crosswalk in Tempe on Sunday night, officials said. The SUV was in autonomous mode at the time of the accident.

Vasquez served three years and 10 months in a state lockup for convictions on attempted armed robbery and unsworn falsification, the Arizona Republic reported. She was released in 2005.

That isn't a dude with a mustache and a man-bun?

An Uber rep declined to comment on her conviction and incarceration, as well as the company’s hiring policies, citing an active investigation.

The San Francisco-based company has recently been criticized for hiring felons.

The Colorado Public Utilities Commission slapped Uber’s parent company with an $8.9 million penalty in November 2017 after a probe determined the ride-hailing service had hired about 60 drivers with felony convictions.

https://nypost.com/2018/03/20/ex-con-was-behind-wheel-of-self-driving-uber-that-killed-woman/