Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'

Re:Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never ... by threeseed on Saturday January 18, 2020 @04:32PM (#22087402)

You're missing the point.

Drivers own the liability for illegal parking. Autonomous cars would make the developer liable.

No government is going to tolerate systemic and wide spread violation of the law.

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Re:Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never ... by robbrown451 on Saturday January 18, 2020 @08:00PM (#22088592)

So the government is going to allow individuals to do it, but not the self driving cars? I don't see it working that way.

It's just like self driving cars will go a bit over the speed limit if that is the flow of traffic. If they don't, then the laws will be adjusted. It would be silly to indefinitely hold back a huge industry because humans get to exploit legal loopholes but machines don't.

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Re:Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never ... by hawaiianbrah on Saturday January 18, 2020 @04:46PM (#22087493)

I think “making the developer liable” is jumping to a conclusion that isn’t certain quite yet.

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Re:Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never ... by dodobirdlord on Saturday January 18, 2020 @06:47PM (#22088242)

Well, no company is going to be able to put in writing "Our plan is to have cars park illegally." Any system that gets built will be constrained by actually having to be law-abiding, which Uber drivers are not constrained by.

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