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Re:Character.AI chatbot hinted a kid should kill parents ove... by snakeyjake on Thursday December 12, 2024 @02:18AM (#42396976)
>would that be the responsibility of the driver?

Yes. What is wrong with you?

It is typical, normal, common, expected, taken for granted that a driver is expected to operate their vehicle in a safe manner and unless that fucking baby is the prematurely reincarnated spirit of Usain Goddamned Bolt, if you hit a fucking child on the highway you're getting looked at.

Any little teeny-tiny thing you did wrong, 1 mph over the limit, tint 0.01% too dark, didn't stop to render aid, safety inspection out of date by one second, will be used to amplify your charges and fuck you even harder.

Here's an example: https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/hartford/man-charged-w...

Here's another: https://qns.com/2023/12/maspeth-man-charged-manslaughter-fat...

Do you need more than that?

Re:Character.AI chatbot hinted a kid should kill parents ove... by capybaraStorm on Thursday December 12, 2024 @09:19AM (#42399297)
A baby once crawled out in front of me from behind a wheel in a parked car on a narrow street.

The parents were not watching the baby at all, but they scowled at me when I swerved as they realized what I was swerving away from.

The parents shouldn't have let a baby crawl in the street but it's not clear to me why I would be at fault in such situation if say a kid was riding his bike on the other side and I had nowhere to swerve (honestly it is a miracle my peripheral vision even captured a baby peaking from behind tire and recognized it). I personally know of at least one instance when I was a kid and a driver hit a (jaywalking) kid on the highway and absolutely nothing happened to anyone, and we all felt that was perfectly just.

Re:Character.AI chatbot hinted a kid should kill parents ove... by cedws on Thursday December 12, 2024 @05:25PM (#42404059)
You are intentionally misinterpreting the example. If someone is driving at 100km/h (as people often do on highways) and has almost no time to react, it is obviously not the driver's fault if they hit someone.