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by discopicante 1329 days ago
I have always been skeptical of FSD because of liability. The system we have today distributes liability to the driver in almost all circumstances – 94% to 96%, according to one quick statistic. It is difficult to imagine this liability being redistributed to a handful (or even 1 or 2) auto manufacturers who remove the driver from the equation.

In other words, I am not sure that auto manufacturers can afford the liability assuming their system reaches a state in which it is 'safer' than a human driver under any condition. The cost of proving that in courts across the world may not be economically feasible.

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Mercedes already assumes liability for their L3 system, let’s see when others follow
More like - let's see when Mercedes will stop selling self driving systems or renounces liability for L3 systems when their self driving car will actually crush somebody.