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Would you say the same thing for a chauffeur or truck driver who killed someone because they were using their phone while driving?
by baddox 6y ago
Would you say the same thing for a chauffeur or truck driver who killed someone because they were using their phone while driving?
- abduhl 6y agoWhen some people learn to drive they can take courses with instructors who sit in the passenger seat and have a brake pedal. When the student driver runs over and kills a pedestrian while the instructor is on their phone, is it the instructor or the student who should face liability? Why not both?
- lkdsajflkfdsjg 6y agoI'm fairly sure the instructor is at least partly liable.
- Ichthypresbyter 6y agoIn England certainly the person supervising a learner driver is subject to the same laws about alcohol, mobile phone use, etc as someone actually driving- and can be convicted on a charge of aiding and abetting any crime the learner driver commits. This is the case regardless of whether they are a professional driving instructor with their own brake pedal, or a parent supervising their child driving the family car.
- glaberficken 6y agoIn Portugal there is an interesting law regarding this: The instructor/examiner is always liable for an accident during driving lessons/exams, except if the accident resulted from an action where the learner disobeyed a direct order by the instructor. In that case the learner takes responsibility.
- clairity 6y agono, because the system is not adversarial in that case, even though the actions of the driver, and the potential tragic results, might be similar.
- liability 6y agoThat somebody driving a truck or car in the normal way is doing more work than a person supervising a self driving car is the whole point of self-driving cars. They take all of the activity out of driving, but none of the tedium. I don't think it's realistic to expect people to function well under those conditions.