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I have no idea what Subaru's reaction would be, but in general you can certainly be held responsible if you allow a bug in self-driving software to cause an acc
by m4x 9y ago
I have no idea what Subaru's reaction would be, but in general you can certainly be held responsible if you allow a bug in self-driving software to cause an accident.
The manufacturer simply has to state that while the software is in control and you are sitting idle, you must continue to pay attention and re-take control if anything goes awry.
In the event of an accident, the manufacturer can then state that the accident would not have occurred if the driver had maintained control as the T&Cs demanded and wash their hands of responsibility in some PR friendly way.
- ghaff 9y ago>if the driver had maintained control Then it is not a self-driving car. There's definitely a point where cars will be nominally just assistive driving under some set of circumstances but people won't pay attention because they normally don't need to. This is one of the things that will need to be worked out as the tech gets better over time. Liability is a big deal. If the car is billed as fully self-driving, the driver really can't be held responsible (both criminally and civilly) if their car runs over someone. (And it will.)
- SOLAR_FIELDS 9y agoI really hope we just skip over that and go straight from 0 to completely self driving. It creates all sorts of messier legal tangles when it could be either the human or the car's fault, instead of making it entirely the car's fault.