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On another note, it could also be interesting to think about what the legal situation could be with a situation like this. If a driverless car prioritises the o
by CM30 10y ago
On another note, it could also be interesting to think about what the legal situation could be with a situation like this. If a driverless car prioritises the owner/passengers, then I can see a few court cases where the families of people killed by one would want to sue the manufacturer over it. And if it works the other way around, it could be the families of the passengers suing the company instead.
At which point we then have to let the court system decide how a driverless car should act in the case of this problem. And then it gets even more complicated, since different countries and states (and even towns) might come to different conclusions here. Does your car now need to know how to act in every possible US state and country in the world in case it's taken there and gets into an accident?
- csydas 10y agoLegally, it will take awhile for most jurisdictions to catch up to the idea of driverless cars, though in the case of passenger death in the autonomous car, there will probably be some complicated legal waiver about what does and does not constitute fault in the software versus what is just an accident. More likely that naught, there will be federal regulations the US as to how the cars must behave, and states can elect whether or not to simply allow the cars, much like how there are national emissions standards.