Quote: (09-23-2017 09:48 PM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:
Quote: (09-23-2017 12:37 PM)rpg Wrote:
Self driving cars on public roads will never be a thing no matter how much people try. A moving car has to be under the legal responsibility of someone. Someone that can be arrested, jailed and sued. When a driverless car runs a kid over who is going to jail? There will be no work around for this.
Big government gets what big government wants.
Kid gets run over? People will just shrug.
"...shouldn't have run onto the road in the first place."
"...drunk drivers used to kill far more per year so it's still a win."
"...kid came from a red/blue state so fuck them anyway."
"...yeah, but they've assured us that the latest patch on the OS will stop this from happening again."
Meanwhile the corporations making billions will simply pay off the parents with the implicit threat that if they pursue charges that their lives will be turned inside out. The public prosecutor will take his orders from above. "Accidents are accidents and everyone has been compensated fairly in accordance with industry standards."
On the flip side, who do you think is going to protest on behalf of a kid here and an old woman there? Nobody.
Most other large scale corporate industries have operated this way for decades. Driverless cars will be no different.
Leonard is close to right. It'll be handled like vaccines are handled now: there'll be a fund set up (By taxpayers? By the companies themselves? Not sure.) and any accidents caused by the driverless car will be paid for by the fund. The companies will never be sued themselves, they won't go bankrupt, and they'll be under no risk at all.
It's a shame everybody's so corrupt, because it's a beautiful technology and it has the ability to improve countless lives. That's what sucks about living in a cyberpunk dystopia though, I guess.