[avidiax]

> It’s been decided you want a perfect track record, as close to flawless - to appease regulation bodies.

This is why I feel China will be the first to have unlimited self-driving. They would be able to treat self-driving cars the way that we treat trains: liability on the person hit by the train, so long as the train was functioning properly.

[nradov]

Maybe the Chinese self-driving cars will be programmed to kill any pedestrians they accidentally hit. Apparently it's cheaper that way.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/09/why-drivers-in-c...