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by freehunter
3448 days ago
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Plenty of people have robots pitter pattering in their house like toddlers. They're called Roombas, and they're the highest selling vacuum cleaner on the market right now. And the reason "we" don't trust smart TVs is because they spy on us without telling us. And the "we" in this situation is a tiny, tiny subset of the population. A lot of people don't know and don't care, they just like Netflix and how it's built into their TVs. No one voted on if they wanted cars in the first place. I'm not sure if you're aware of how incredibly dangerous cars are, but I can tell you without looking up the numbers that if we were to vote on it today with an unbiased viewpoint, there's no way anyone would be allowed to drive a car. I'm sorry, but I feel like you're going to be in the minority on this one. You seem really scared. I'm not trying to change your mind, but I would like for you to take a look at traffic fatality statistics and and think hard about whether or not it's worthwhile pursuit to try to bring that number down. |
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I would like those people who take it as an article of faith that self driving cars will cause fewer fatalities to watch closely where the liability falls.
If executives go to jail when the software crashes the car and kills or maims somebody and they let it out on the roads then I'm happy.
If instead those companies get slapped with token fines, I'm pretty sure that they're going to push out faulty software before it's ready and kill a bunch of people.
Politically it's still up in the air but currently it's looking like there won't be any criminal liability.