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Re:Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare by foofie on Sunday January 14, 2024 @01:19PM (#38992866)
> We'd demand a way higher standard because these companies don't really have any skin in the game, except for financial penalties which we now understand is not a deterrent for anything.

I'll add that one of the penalties for accidents caused by human error is a prison term.

Until a Tesla/Uber/Waymo exec responsible for autonomous driving can serve a prison term for accidents caused by their service, the penalty for accidents caused by autonomous driving is orders of magnitude lighter than those applied to human drivers.

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Re:Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare by amelius on Sunday January 14, 2024 @01:44PM (#38993148)
We should also demand that these companies are run by engineers, not MBA types. Otherwise, we'd end up with neglect of safety measures as seen at Boeing. And I'm not sure if any kind of external incentive could change that.
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Re:Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare by bluGill on Sunday January 14, 2024 @02:00PM (#38993298)
> one of the penalties for accidents caused by human error is a prison term.

Really? How does anyone get that. I've only seen murder with a car worth 90 days in jail and loss of the car.

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Re:Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare by foofie on Monday January 15, 2024 @12:45AM (#38997772)
> Really? How does anyone get that.

In the US, vehicular homicide comes with a sentence that's typically between 9 and 30 years.

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