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The GGP talks about "something like autopilot" acceptance and the eventual goal of the system is to cut the human driver out. GP is talking about insurance and

The GGP talks about "something like autopilot" acceptance and the eventual goal of the system is to cut the human driver out. GP is talking about insurance and how we regulate drivers, stating that we should be looking at the same for autopilot systems. Parent says "Always prosecute the driver. There's no such thing as "the car did it"." At what point does the "autopilot" have any skin in the game so to speak? Is it a binary thing, one day we wake up to an update and the cars can drive themselves with no input? Or will will be forever stuck in a quasi beta test, where the driver is liable for the actions of the system but has no meaningful way for controlling the system(autopilot) or even knowing how the system operates. You can't have it both ways. Either the system is better than people and is going to take responsibility or it isn't. No one will accept a system they have no control over and do not understand but have to accept liability for.

ck2 4y ago
There may come a day where someone is truly the passenger in the driver's seat in a car, like a person riding a bus. Today is not that day. Nor is it next year. Or this decade. A whole lot of people are going to die this decade, both drivers and victims hit, because marketing wants people to believe you don't have to pay attention once you turn it on rather it's an assist, not a replacement, for the driver. It's not autopilot right now. It's driver assist. As long as the driver exists, the driver is responsible. In an "old school" car, if an accelerator gets stuck and you mow someone down, then they find spaghetti code in the accelerator or it mechanically got stuck from design failure, you still have liability for killing someone but your prosecution won't be the same as someone who purposely drove over someone they were angry with.

ck2 4y ago

There may come a day where someone is truly the passenger in the driver's seat in a car, like a person riding a bus. Today is not that day. Nor is it next year. Or this decade. A whole lot of people are going to die this decade, both drivers and victims hit, because marketing wants people to believe you don't have to pay attention once you turn it on rather it's an assist, not a replacement, for the driver. It's not autopilot right now. It's driver assist. As long as the driver exists, the driver is responsible. In an "old school" car, if an accelerator gets stuck and you mow someone down, then they find spaghetti code in the accelerator or it mechanically got stuck from design failure, you still have liability for killing someone but your prosecution won't be the same as someone who purposely drove over someone they were angry with.