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Re:Should autonomous cars kill their owner to save multiple ... by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:29PM (#7746198)
But to sell an autonomous car, you have to survive lawsuits. That's the paramount issue in front of manufacturers. The engineering issues are simple in comparison.

What's acceptable or not will be decided in a court, unfortunately. And like most other traffic-related issues, some default rule (driver in rear at fault etc) will be built over many cases over time.

Unfortunately its unlikely a reasonable rule will prevail. Instead some enforceable rule will win out. Regardless, early manufacturers of autonomous cars are likely to be sued to oblivion in the process.

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Re:Should autonomous cars kill their owner to save multiple ... by dllthomas on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @05:58PM (#7746679)
What's decided in a court depends in large part on social judgements. We should be deciding what's reasonable and convincing others (and being convinced - as a part of that collective deciding), not whining about things that haven't happened yet.
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