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I see that my hopes that readers would understand that I wrote "autonomous vehicle function" and not "autonomous vehicle" deliberately to avoid confusing the tw
by dventimi 3y ago
I see that my hopes that readers would understand that I wrote "autonomous vehicle function" and not "autonomous vehicle" deliberately to avoid confusing the two, that I wasn't using a legal definition, and that I was doing this to distinguish the majority of accidents that don't involve self driving cars or plain old cruise control from the minority of accidents that do, has not been fulfilled. Oh well, there's always next year.
In any case, drivers are not totally responsible. After all, what if there's a defect in let's say an "advanced cruise control" system and it's a factor in accidents? Can you rule out the possibility that a jury in a class action suit would assign some blame to the manufacturer?
- leereeves 3y agoSorry, I can't read your mind. Why don't you just use the standard term "advanced driver assistance system"? I don't want to speculate on what juries might do, but the first such lawsuit was decided recently. The driver's family "blamed a malfunction by the car’s driver-assistance software for the crash", nonetheless Tesla was assigned zero responsibility. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/business/tesla-autopilot-jury-decision.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/business/tesla-autopilot-...
- dventimi 3y ago>Why don't you just use the standard term "advanced driver assistance system"? Because that's not the standard term. >I don't want to speculate on what juries might do Put another way, no you can't rule out the possibility.