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In Reply to: RE: Autonomous self driving cars.. The 2010's version of the 1950's 'flying car' ? posted by rditmars on March 25, 2017 at 15:38:53
You are probably correct about that.
In addition to your point about $$$, consumer acceptance (i.e., unease with riding along in a driver-less vehicle) is expected to be one of the key stumbling blocks to widespread use of this technology. In the case of trucking, no passenger will be present, so an occupant's "unease" is a non-issue.
Follow Ups:
A driverless truck full of beer crashes into a car.
There is no truck driver.
Who takes responsibility for the crash?
Who pays the victims?
Maybe it gets decided that because driverless vehicles are statistically safer than driven vehicles, the beer company's truck insurer will agree insure the driverless fleet AND accept the liability in all accidents without argument - Great! Everybody will save some money because there will be fewer accidents.
BUT what if there is civil action? - Who will the Judge decide was in control of the truck at the time of the accident? The beer company or the vehicle builder, or the software company that designed the driverless tech?
Will we end up with a whole new Ralph Nader thing? Hundreds of dead pedestrians and cyclists killed by driverless vehicles while the car companies say it's fine, because even though their driverless vehicles are killing them, there are fewer being killed than in the old days by drivers?
Cheers,
John K
Yes, all stake holders and anyone that has given this some thought is aware of the issues and disaster scenarios.
But the writing is on the wall and legislation is already being passed.
Read the link that I posted earlier.
I fail to see what difference the car companies' line is about deaths resulting from driver-less cars. If less people die, it's a good thing, isn't it? Is it somehow worse if you are killed by a driver-less car than a car with a driver?
Unless some massive no blame insurance and compensation scheme starts so that responsibility is no longer critical.
Cheers,
John K
The company Monsanto managed to get a law passed freeing them of any liability if GMO stuff goes South. (And that is a hell of a sweet deal)
So I guess the automotive companies can get the same sort of deal.
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