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It'll likely never get passed, but we truly need an "acceptable death" metric to be passed to protect the companies (and apparently people too, since some in th

It'll likely never get passed, but we truly need an "acceptable death" metric to be passed to protect the companies (and apparently people too, since some in these comments what the developers held responsible) from deaths. In my opinion, a law should be passed that per mile driven, 5-10% of the current deaths per mile is allowed, and it should begin decreasing after 10 or so years to something low (maybe 1%, maybe .01%, we'd have to wait and see). People will always make mistakes, the benefit with self driving cars however is that mistake should only be made once. Whatever bug caused it to be considered at fault can be patched and will never occur in that exact circumstance again. Meanwhile with humans you could have that same case occur over and over again. With how much money people can win in lawsuits nowadays, all it would take is a handful of cases to totally destroy a manufacturer of self driving cars.

Erlangolem 9y ago
That sounds like the market correcting itself, while you want to protect the likes of Uber from market forces, with new laws. Putting that aside though, good luck trying to get re-elected after passing a law like that. Few people are technocratic and emotionally detached enough to agree with you, from the looks of it, not even on this site.
- ApolloFortyNine 9y ago
  How on earth is a lawsuit a market force? Did you even read the first 5 words? >It'll likely never get passed Can you stop trolling my posts? You aren't adding much of anything.
tachyonbeam 9y ago
In general, I like having a diverse set of options available in terms of software implementations (eg: multiple C++ compilers to choose from). It does worry me a little bit, however, that so many companies are trying to implement their own self-driving cars from scratch. If you just look at how buggy new OS releases tend to be, how many blatantly obvious bugs you run into every month, it's clear that many software development teams don't properly test their stuff. Some companies, like uber here, will act irresponsibly and fuck up, resulting in the loss of human lives. I would guess it's inevitable that in the medium/long-term, there will only be one or two companies developing and selling self-driving tech to every car manufacturer. Small players won't have enough data, everyone will be too afraid of the risk, the amount of government regulations surrounding self-driving cars will increase. More regulations will protect people but it will also mean it's much harder to start gathering the data you need and testing your product.

Erlangolem 9y ago

That sounds like the market correcting itself, while you want to protect the likes of Uber from market forces, with new laws. Putting that aside though, good luck trying to get re-elected after passing a law like that. Few people are technocratic and emotionally detached enough to agree with you, from the looks of it, not even on this site.

ApolloFortyNine 9y ago
How on earth is a lawsuit a market force? Did you even read the first 5 words? >It'll likely never get passed Can you stop trolling my posts? You aren't adding much of anything.

tachyonbeam 9y ago

In general, I like having a diverse set of options available in terms of software implementations (eg: multiple C++ compilers to choose from). It does worry me a little bit, however, that so many companies are trying to implement their own self-driving cars from scratch. If you just look at how buggy new OS releases tend to be, how many blatantly obvious bugs you run into every month, it's clear that many software development teams don't properly test their stuff. Some companies, like uber here, will act irresponsibly and fuck up, resulting in the loss of human lives. I would guess it's inevitable that in the medium/long-term, there will only be one or two companies developing and selling self-driving tech to every car manufacturer. Small players won't have enough data, everyone will be too afraid of the risk, the amount of government regulations surrounding self-driving cars will increase. More regulations will protect people but it will also mean it's much harder to start gathering the data you need and testing your product.