It’s safe to say that no one at the autonomous vehicle startup Avride will be using any omelette-related idioms about the necessity of sacrifice anytime soon.
In Austin, Texas, where the company is based and tests its self-driving tech, one of its autonomous cars ran over and killed a mother duck that had wandered away from her nearby nest of eggs — and drove off without stopping.
As KXAN reported, the hit-and-run was first flagged by a resident in a Facebook group for the Mueller Lake Park neighborhood where the incident took place, claiming that a person was in the driver’s seat without their hands on the wheel when it happened…