Re:Let’s Talk About Self-Driving Cars
by ghaff on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @12:07PM
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The liability situation at scale will also be "interesting." With the exception of pharmaceutical side-effects (which, in the case of vaccines are even explicitly dealt with through the government), it's hard to think of another consumer product, properly maintained and operated, where faults randomly kill people because "stuff happens" without consequences.
GM didn't get to play the engineering is complicated and there are always tradeoffs card with its ignition switches. (And, yes, I know this was a case of a known problem but product defects still usually trigger liability in any case.)
GM didn't get to play the engineering is complicated and there are always tradeoffs card with its ignition switches. (And, yes, I know this was a case of a known problem but product defects still usually trigger liability in any case.)