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Failure is one aspect. But what if there's a bug? Suppose there's an extreme edge case where a bicyclists fluorescent jacket appears as a road to the car; so t
by ajays 16y ago
Failure is one aspect. But what if there's a bug?
Suppose there's an extreme edge case where a bicyclists fluorescent jacket appears as a road to the car; so the car chases down the cyclist and runs him over. This is not a hardware failure, but an active decision made by the car to cause injury to a person. So in such a situation, who would be responsible? I guess it is a question for technolawyers to decide.
- jfager 16y agoHow is that not a system failure? Because the car has some kind of intent? Well, we have an analogue for that today, too: who gets punished when a dog attacks someone? I'm not saying there are no details to work out. I'm just saying that it's not some unfathomable chasm we have to cross. We deal with similar questions all the time right now.