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This seems like a bit of an over-simplification.. A car needs to be type approved to run on our streets and the insurance companies need to accept whatever you
by l33tman 5y ago
This seems like a bit of an over-simplification.. A car needs to be type approved to run on our streets and the insurance companies need to accept whatever you did to the car in case of a crash. You don't really want to end up paying 100% yourself when you crash into that school bus with your mod.
However it would be interesting to learn how type approvals handle the self-driving things. Maybe they really do allow all kinds of computer-assisted things? I don't know. If you change some structural beams in the car you surely lose approval. But can you mod steering and braking? What about openpilot users that crash?
- oceanplexian 5y agoYou can do a thought experiment where some esoteric firmware modification results in an accident, but it's 1000x more likely that Joe Sixpack spaces out while driving, runs a red light, and crashes into a busload of kids. Once we've solved that problem, drunk driving, distracted driving, poor driver education, and thus eliminated 99.9% of accidents, then it might make sense to have a debate about those pesky car modders or edge-case Tesla autopilot failures that are responsible for the last 0.01%.