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Re:Driverless cars promise to reduce accidents, revolutionis... by majormajor on Saturday September 01, 2012 @02:24PM (#4464605)
Is causing accidents in self-driving cars going to be any more a target than causing accidents in human-driven cars? Seems you could already wreak a lot of havoc with rush-hour traffic if you really wanted to. Blinding/distracting drivers, obstacles, maybe little bombs?
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Re:Driverless cars promise to reduce accidents, revolutionis... by protomyth on Saturday September 01, 2012 @03:44PM (#4464858)
Well, since self-driving cars are new and don't have the protection of an earlier history of precedents, then yes, they will be much bigger legal targets. The whole overblown spontaneous acceleration incidents would be a good pointer.
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Re:Driverless cars promise to reduce accidents, revolutionis... by Estragon on Saturday September 01, 2012 @04:37PM (#4465038)
Driverless trucks with no passengers will totally be targets for vandalism and theft.
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