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How am I liable for an accident caused by my self driving car, though?

• dragonwriter 8y ago
  > How am I liable for an accident caused by my self driving car, though? Because you failed to maintain the vehicle in a safely operable condition. Now, if s manufacturers defect contributed to that failure, the manufacturer may also be liable, but that doesn't mean you aren't liable, and the manufacturer is going to claim and try to prove that that isn't the case.
  • rwmj 8y ago
    In practice that sounds impossible. Am I supposed to audit the code? I probably don't even get to see the code, and even if I did we don't have any even theoretical way to audit the neural network parts.
    • bsagdiyev 8y ago
      But you can audit tires, physical damage to sensors, cameras, etc so if an accident were to be caused by failure to brake caused by rain and bald tires, that is entirely your fault. ABS will only take you so far.
    • dragonwriter 8y ago
      > In practice that sounds impossible. Am I supposed to audit the code? I know HN has a software bias, but a self-driving car is not a blob of disembodied code, and the code that is present relies on the state of hardware for proper operation.
• andymcsherry 8y ago
  There are other things your insurance covers, like an uninsured driver hitting your car, theft, a tree falling on your car, etc. These things will still happen to self driving cars.