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Am I buying the insurance, or is the manufacturer/software company?
by navigatesol 7y ago
Am I buying the insurance, or is the manufacturer/software company?
- jedberg 7y agoYou are because you own the machine.
- FireBeyond 7y agoYour analogy with industrial facilities falls apart. If I buy industrial equipment, it comes with a set of safety recommendations, and requirements. On top of those may also be Labor & Industries, or OSHA. If I fail to follow these, I as the owner am held responsible. How do I ensure that the SDC follows these? How much control do I have over that, short of "don't buy/drive it"? If I do follow these, I may also be hit with an insurance claim, but if I can show that the manufacturer didn't account for something I can probably also make a case against them to recoup some of my loss. Given Tesla, for one egregious example, and their already demonstrated trend of trying to buck any and all responsibility for Autopilot-related collisions, how likely you do you think they are to step up to the plate for "Yes, our car should have determined that there was a pedestrian in the road and stopped, but didn't"? Because I see it more that they will instead hide behind current software clauses, "not responsible for issues, errors, losses, defects".