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Re:An Update on Last Week’s Accident by TwoBit on Saturday March 31, 2018 @02:33AM (#16722073)
What you are asking them to do is legal suicide. If they were to claim this was their fault, they would be immediately slapped with multi-million dollar lawsuits from everybody who ever had a problem with auto pilot. It would end the company.
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Re:An Update on Last Week’s Accident by blarneystun on Saturday March 31, 2018 @12:22PM (#16723884)
Really? I don't think so. It's not like a "confession".

Can't people sue them even without their admission of any responsibility whatsoever? I think so.

And that they simply say: "We are sorry, we take full responsibility." does not open them up to lawsuits -- the courts still have to hear the arguments to back up "actual legal liability" and then adjudicate / elaborate a verdict / judgement, right?

Comments from lawyers, please. Very interesting.

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