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Don't we already have a huge infrastructure of police, the courts, and insurance companies in place to decide these very things everyday? I mean, how is this d
by cubano 9y ago
Don't we already have a huge infrastructure of police, the courts, and insurance companies in place to decide these very things everyday?
I mean, how is this different then all of the other accidents that occur every day? Yes a self-driving car is involved, but do people really think autonomous cars aren't going to be involved in fatal accidents?
Of course they are...but I've always thought that autonomous vehicles only have to be like 10% safer for them to make tons of sense to replace human drivers.
- rocqua 9y agoFor the same reason we don't leave the investigation of plane-crashes to the attorney general and the courts. We care about more than 'who should we punish for this' in this case. We want to know what happened, how it happened, how we could have prevented it, how likely it is to happen again, what assumptions or overlooked details lie at the heart of this. The required level of expertise, effort and precision here are higher than in a regular traffic accident. Moreover, the required skill-set, knowledge base, and willingness to work in a new area here make this an exceptional case. Finally, the outcome of this will be much more than liability in a single case. This could set the precedent for an entire field of industry. This could be the moment we find out self-driving cars are nearly a pipe-dream, or it could be the moment we kill self-driving cars at the cost of millions of preventable traffic accidents. This investigation just might determine a lot, again, that makes it exceptional.
- hnal943 9y agoWho would be liable? The owner of the AV? The manufacturer?