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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by sumedh on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @06:14PM (#21468620)
> We don't need self-driving cars to be perfect before they are released, just better than people.

Who goes to jail when the self driving car kills people?

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by bumby on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @07:48PM (#21469325)
This is a real dilemma. IIRC, some car companies have already stated they will take responsibility
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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by princeb on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @08:06PM (#21469429)
no ones going to jail from MCAS auto-correcting planes into the ground.
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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by jacquesm on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @08:15PM (#21469482)
Yet. It may still come to that. If the Germans can go after Martin Winterkorn long after he thought he was in the clear then this may still happen as well.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/24/20881534/volkswagen-diese...

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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by sumedh on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @08:27PM (#21469561)
Are there lawsuits/investigations still pending or they are over and no one from Boeing was found to be guilty?
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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by jacquesm on Thursday November 07, 2019 @04:12PM (#21477302)
The Boeing story is only getting started for real. It may take a new head of the FAA before the whole thing will be tackled frontally but eventually that will happen. The USA can't afford an FAA that is without respect.
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Re:Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outs... by Johnny555 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @07:17PM (#21469097)
Depends. If it's a hardware failure, then no one should go to jail, just like today, if my wheel falls off (through no fault of my own) and I run into a child, I wouldn't expect to go to jail (heck, drivers already get pretty much free rein to run down pedestrians by saying "I didn't see him"). The car manufacturer may have some financial liability if it was a product defect, but again no jail time.

The interesting moral dilemma is what to do if the car decided it was better to run into a pedestrian and protect the driver than to run into a brick wall and protect the pedestrian.

There's no easy answer to that dilemma.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07135-0

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