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Lee-Lee

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6. And that's before the liability issues

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 29, 2018, 06:34 AM

Aug 2018

If your self driving car comes to a random stop on the road and causes a 5 car pileup- who gets sued?

The “driver”? They didn’t stop it. The manufacturer or company who wrote the code?

Right now the law lays the blame for actions taken in the car with the driver, and for accidents caused by actual mechanical failures or bad design on the company. But what if the bad driving is now a design failure and the owner/driver is out of that loop?

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It's almost like driving is a complicated task gratuitous Aug 2018 #1

I've tried to explain this over and over. rickford66 Aug 2018 #3

And that's before the liability issues Lee-Lee Aug 2018 #6

So some people that don't use them don't like them 4now Aug 2018 #2

It's the other people on the road who do not like them FrodosNewPet Aug 2018 #4

Much as New York pedestrians hated automobiles prior to traffic laws. LanternWaste Aug 2018 #7

I don't like pedestrians, bicyclists and other drivers who don't obey traffic laws mythology Aug 2018 #11

Bugs will be worked out. But happy they aren't working out near me dembotoz Aug 2018 #5

Snow and ice? Well, human drivers do quite poorly MineralMan Aug 2018 #8

yes we do dembotoz Aug 2018 #9

And That's A Weird Thing ProfessorGAC Aug 2018 #10

supposedly 2nd worse roads in the nation..... dembotoz Aug 2018 #14

The human brain can be very good at analyzing MineralMan Aug 2018 #12

I wish more winter drivers were like you, MineralMan. We'd all be safer for it. Totally Tunsie Aug 2018 #16

Like it or not, this is the future. Oneironaut Aug 2018 #13

Two things: rgbecker Aug 2018 #15

Have the taxpayers been on the hook for the current reconversion to renewable energies? LanternWaste Aug 2018 #17