Discussion A question about self-driving taxi services.

[Brainy]

If a Waymo runs over a pedestrian and it kills them, who is at fault?

The company? The software developers? The camera/sensor manufacturers?

If any of these, who in the company? The head, head and leads, or everyone including the associate?

 

[zd60]

Currently I think its the company. They typically just fine the company as a entity. even if someone is killed life usually has a number value to make the problem go away

 

[FuckYou]

I may sound like a boomer for saying this but I really don’t like the idea of self-driving cars.

 

[Brainy]

Currently I think its the company. They typically just fine the company as a entity. even if someone is killed life usually has a number value to make the problem go away

I agree that the company is the answer to this one

But I wonder if the company will ignite a chain reaction of, let's say a camera had a hidden update and Waymo or another self-driving company sues the camera manufacturer, who then finds that the update wasn't supposed to be automatic

If a sensor/camera ended up being defective, I think that would be on the car company not the camera company because then it would be a quality check issue on the car company to make sure everything works before putting it out on the road

Quality check for the serial number's manufacturing plant would probably get fired

 

[zd60]

I agree that the company is the answer to this one

But I wonder if the company will ignite a chain reaction of, let's say a camera had a hidden update and Waymo or another self-driving company sues the camera manufacturer, who then finds that the update wasn't supposed to be automatic

If a sensor/camera ended up being defective, I think that would be on the car company not the camera company because then it would be a quality check issue on the car company to make sure everything works before putting it out on the road

Quality check for the serial number's manufacturing plant would probably get fired

I agree, I think there could be some chain reaction but overall will just be localized to the car company as they are essentially the final people before putting the car on the road

 

[Brainy]

I may sound like a boomer for saying this but I really don’t like the idea of self-driving cars.

It feels to me like we're entering the model T era of self-driving cars

By that I mean when cars were becoming mainstream, there was a clash between horses and cars, and traffic laws had to be made

Before those traffic laws cars were all over the place in the road


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9sgNDgqXzA0&pp=ygUPdHJhZmZpYyBpbiAxOTA4


But, I speculate cars replaced horses mainstream faster than self-driving cars will replace(drive for) drivers mainstream

 

[Cloudrak]

I may sound like a boomer for saying this but I really don’t like the idea of self-driving cars.

i agree we need to shift away from car dependency

 

[Brainy]

i agree we need to shift away from car dependency

absolutely

a vehicle is a major investment

it would save a lot of money to not be required to deal with one

 

[Glassness]

The company there would lots of fines and the company would probably do really bad