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I think a risk is that courts make a habit of awarding significant penalties because the mistakes the cars are making are less understandable, and so seen as wo
by dllthomas 6y ago
I think a risk is that courts make a habit of awarding significant penalties because the mistakes the cars are making are less understandable, and so seen as worthy of more blame even though there is less damage actually being done.
- dragonwriter 6y agoThere's well-established rules for what a driver is required to do, and they clearly apply to machines that replace drivers. In general, liability for failure to follow traffic laws and for manufacturers defects are strict liability, so how easy it is to understand the error doesn't really have much room to play a factor in assigning liability, nor is it normally a legal component of assessment of damages once liability were assigned. If we were talking about liability in a negligence/recklessness regime, “hard to understand innocent errors => more liability awards” is a reasonable model, but in a strict liability regime, that an error is innocent (which being easy to understand makes more likely that a trier of fact, perhaps especially a jury, will find) isn't a mitigation.
- dllthomas 6y agoThat's somewhat reassuring :)