It demonstrates very well how they prioritize safety vs. potential profit.
[1] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cdgQpa1pUUE/maxresdefault.jpg (This is the type of cars they had in 2012).
The Camry driver was either absolutely or co-equally required to yield (TIL that despite the DMV Driver Handbook saying the former about freeway merges, there's signficant debate over whether that or equal responsibility is a correct interpretation of the Vehicle Code.)
> Note that the author of the article is Charles Duhigg, a Pulitzer-price winning journalist
No, it's Nicole Karlis, a Salon staff writer on tech, health, and gender politics who has not won a Pulitzer.
Now, the article is a sensationalized rehash of an incident from of a New Yorker article by Charles Duhigg, but he is not the author of the article directly at issue.
There was another incident they never reported. The other driver was undocumented and he also preferred not to report.
“unlicensed”, per the article. “undocumented” in US parlance, referring to an individual, usually refers to immigration status; the article only indicates this driver had no driver's license.
I don't live in the US, so I don't know - but is that common? To me, it sounds like a significant accident, and I fail to understand why it wouldn't be reported.
That’s about as amazing as Hollywood accounting.
Having said that - I doubt that's how things happened.
That only is likley to happen if someone hits someone else...
Hollywood accounting does not kill or maim.
With no external oversight, no transparency, and a sketchy record of honest reporting.
> The cars continued speeding down the freeway side by side. The Camry’s driver jerked his car onto the right shoulder. Then, apparently trying to avoid a guardrail, he veered to the left; the Camry pinwheeled across the freeway and into the median. Levandowski, who was acting as the safety driver, swerved hard to avoid colliding with the Camry, causing Taylor to injure his spine so severely that he eventually required multiple surgeries.
> The Prius regained control and turned a corner on the freeway, leaving the Camry behind.
[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/did-uber-steal...
The article only says he was unlicensed; the upthread poster converted that to “undocumented”.
Similar issue of legal repercussions, but in the larger context of the current political environment, worlds apart.
