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Whats your deal with putting people in jail, and why would you assume no on will be punished if something goes wrong? Obviously there will be repercussions for

• tomjakubowski 9y ago
  > Obviously there will be repercussions for accidents, but we don't know what they are or how it will play out. The top-level comment was just asking if we could work out how this might look beforehand.
• notahacker 9y ago
  It's the government putting people in jail, not me. And the details of who is responsible for the car under what circumstances does seem like the sort of thing that should be worked out - in public - before you have a software program operating a car potentially beyond the effective (due to latency etc) control of its designated human driver (for legal purposes) and whilst corporate PR represents the vehicle as entirely autonomous. Especially if there's a sneaking suspicion that the reason these trials are able to take place in this manner is that for any given driving error, officers and employees of corporations who have chosen to unleash experimental technology on public roads are less likely to be held liable for the consequences of their actions than a regular driver due to the dilution of responsibility.