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Re:The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automat... by GrumpyYoungMan on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @10:06AM (#11571945)
>How many software developers want to be held criminally responsible for deaths?

Nope. Short of gross negligence in design, that seldom happens in any engineering field.

How many people were criminally charged in the Challenger disaster? None.

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Re:The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automat... by pm24601 on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @11:34AM (#11572721)
7 people died in the challenger disaster. 30,000 people die each year in car related fatalities. Completely different order of magnitude.

Additionally, going up on a rocket is a fundamentally risking proposition done by adults.

Having a driverless vehicle that glitches, applies power instead of brakes, and kills a bunch of pretty young girls.... well that makes the 5 oclock news and 11 oclock for many, many days.

People get charged with crimes.

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Re:The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automat... by GrumpyYoungMan on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @04:58PM (#11575562)
How many criminal charges were filed against individual engineers for any those 30,000 fatalities last year? How many were convicted? None and none.

You're illustrating my point for me quite nicely. Frankly, I can't think of a criminal conviction, even at the corporate level, for design flaws in the auto industry without going all the way back to the Ford Pinto.

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