Re:Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
by joe_the_user on Monday October 11, 2010 @02:39PM
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The Toyota Pedal case certainly points towards liability demanding less code.
If there was a automation feature that prevented accidents in 90% of the situations where a human would crash but caused an accident in a situation that was 10% as likely to occur as a human crash, the result would still huge liability since the manufacturer would "definitely" be at fault in the latter case.
If there was a automation feature that prevented accidents in 90% of the situations where a human would crash but caused an accident in a situation that was 10% as likely to occur as a human crash, the result would still huge liability since the manufacturer would "definitely" be at fault in the latter case.