Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by probably_wrong 1922 days ago
If that happened to me and the legal system tried to blame me, I would bring a pile of papers and several experts on human attention research. They would testify that humans don't work that way and that the car maker was being either stupid or malicious.

I believe that the only reason Uber, Waymo, and friends have gotten away with "it's the drivers job" is because there aren't that many autonomous cars around and no one was brought to court yet.

1 comments

> I believe that the only reason Uber, Waymo, and friends have gotten away with "it's the drivers job"

Waymo doesn't do L2 or L3, only L4 autonomy. In the case where the AV is at fault for an accident, it would be due to the system as there is no human driver in the vehicle.