Plantagenet wrote:Who is to blame when a Tesla on autopilot smashes into another car and kills people?
Is the driver of the car on autopilot to blame?
Is Tesla to blame?
Tesla's autopilot was controlling and driving the car when the crash occurred......so maybe the driver should be considered to be just a passenger?
Who gets the traffic ticket for the vehicular homicide? Tesla or the driver?
Who gets sued by the family of victims? Tesla or the driver?
A case like this is now in court and soon the court will decide......
Is Tesla to blame when a car on autopilot causes a crash and kills someone?
Or is the driver to blame even though he wasn't in control of the car?
a-tesla-on-autopilot-killed-two-people-in-gardena-is-the-driver-guilty-of-manslaughter]Is Tesla to blame when a car on autopilot causes a crash and kills someone? Or is the driver to blame even though he wasn't in control of the car?Cheers!
ALL OF THIS clearly needs to be worked out for ALL automated cars, and should be done in advance of them being widely used.
Tesla isn't even the leader in automated vehicles (despite its claims), since it's vehicles aren't actually automated (merely level 2 driver assist features).
But MANY companies are working seriously on this and a variety of companies will have real world revenue earning robo-taxis earning fares in various cities by mid decade. Waymo and Cruise already. Mobileye in 2022, per plans and the press. And various others. And not just in the US. XPeng, a Chinese EV outfit in China has big plans and has done lots of work and has Youtube videos showing their automated driving system working (XPilot) in China, for example.
I keep seeing scattered signs of "progress re dealing with this, but nothing that I see seems organized, much less comprehensive.
For example, the NHTSA supposedly has "rules" now for automated vehicles, including that they can be deployed "safely" even without human controls. But do such rules clearly address the points you made (and others)?
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos- ... 022-03-11/I don't feel like digging around and trying to go through all the lawyerese on this (and I often find lawyerese incomprehensible, being a layman).
But it does seem like a lot of chaos, given the magnitude of the issue, and the MANY outfits that are making progress and testing and deploying (and soon to deploy) automated vehicles in increasing numbers. Plus Tesla with something sort of in-between, with little oversight or regulation, and too often misused by drivers in various scenarios, some of which hit the news, like high speed crashes into emergency vehicles, etc.