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This is wildly overstated: Tesla's have been selling better than ever despite many documented instances of their self-driving mode failing to "save people insid
by majormajor 5y ago
This is wildly overstated: Tesla's have been selling better than ever despite many documented instances of their self-driving mode failing to "save people inside at any cost." A self-driving car occasionally killing an occupant is seen more like the same sort of low-odds risk as a human-driven car occasionally killing its occupant.
A self-driven car that doesn't watch out for non-passengers is likely to going to run afoul of the same sorts of laws that already exist to avoid drivers prioritizing themselves over anyone else. There's a case in SoCal now trying to make the manslaughter liability for this in a Tesla with autopilot enabled be assigned to the driver of the Tesla. It'll be interesting to see where that goes.