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What, if any, fine or other punishment is Cruise expected to receive?

• altairprime 3y ago
  I don't know, as it wasn't interesting to me; and, I don't recommend contacting the DMV for retaliatory purposes. Others are welcome to speak to this if they know more, though. Personally, I want to see the DMV define expectations for autonomous cars with respect to interrupted cellular service, so that Cruise and others cannot simply just park in the middle of the street as the selfish-lowest-liability choice. It's possible the DMV will define an expectation of the car coming to a stop, or continuing to operate for up to five minutes, or whatever. I also feel like Cruise's disengagement report has a chance of containing materially-interesting data around why they disengaged — for example, can their cars operate without a cellular connection at all, or are they dependent on The Cloud?
  • olliej 3y ago
    > Personally, I want to see the DMV define expectations for autonomous cars with respect to interrupted cellular service The rules for self driving cars should be at least the same as for people. If things differ at all, it should be making them harsher - people get a heavily restricted degree of latitude as we recognize human brains suffer fatigue, etc but computers don't suffer those issues. Similarly liability (civil and criminal) for dangerous, unsafe, or simply incorrect driving shall be with the driver. With a self driving vehicle, that is the manufacturer. The whole reason for the "driver must pay attention while self driving" is to liability shift from the manufacturer of an unsafe product to the purchaser.
  • HWR_14 3y ago
    I agree that "stopping in the middle of the street" should be discouraged. Certainly one solution is to remove the liability for continuing to drive. Another is to increase the liability (if insufficient) for stopping in the middle of the street.