Re:How driverless cars will affect our cities
by rdtsc on Friday March 29, 2013 @11:49AM
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Interesting perspective.
One can take various perspectives here: the person injured, the driver, the car manufacturer. It has ramifications for all of them.
The general questions is, "is the judicial system ready to deal with robots, sold to others, who end up injuring and killing people?". I don't know if it is.
Cruise control is there as others pointed. A car on a cruise control hitting someone will be the fault of the driver pretty much.
There are also law suits about failing breaks and other defects, those after extensive back and forth, end up eventually being a manufacturer's problem.
One can take various perspectives here: the person injured, the driver, the car manufacturer. It has ramifications for all of them.
The general questions is, "is the judicial system ready to deal with robots, sold to others, who end up injuring and killing people?". I don't know if it is.
Cruise control is there as others pointed. A car on a cruise control hitting someone will be the fault of the driver pretty much.
There are also law suits about failing breaks and other defects, those after extensive back and forth, end up eventually being a manufacturer's problem.