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Yes, absolutely there should at least be the possibility of the owner being criminally liable. It's like if you drive with shit poorly strapped into the back of
by vectorjohn 11y ago
Yes, absolutely there should at least be the possibility of the owner being criminally liable. It's like if you drive with shit poorly strapped into the back of antruck and it falls off on the highway and kills someone. If it can be shown that the tampering caused the harm, it's really hard to argue there is no criminal liability.
- jessaustin 11y agoOne can envision various ways of showing that. Loading the custom firmware onto a different robocar, which then exhibits previously-unseen unsafe behavior related to the mishap in question, would be convincing. Unfortunately from this thread it seems clear that we'll just have some blowhard Tesla manager swearing that "our code is perfect and any change to our code would automatically cause vehicular Armageddon, never mind the fact that we change it on a regular basis!" They won't want me on the jury...