Yeah but the focus will be on the driverless car, I’m not saying they are blameless, just that the general heat and attention will probably not be on them now
Autonomous vehicles are still mostly half baked, and the question of liability of who gets the blame hasn’t even preheated the oven.
The reality is company’s like waymo are using their cars in SF precisely to harvest training data because they can’t finish it without real world data- the physical driving a car is easy; interacting with humans is not.
One of my son’s coworkers was just killed in a similar incident. Woman hits a pedestrian, she freaks out and calls her boyfriend instead of emergency services, boyfriend arrives and runs over the injured pedestrian ensuring he was dead.
They are unsure which vehicle actually killed him.
The general public is irrelevant here. If it weren’t for the self driving car the hit and run wouldn’t even have made the news. If it all this makes it worse for the driver.
And I don’t think there is a wrong party to blame. Both are equally fucked up.
Perhaps he’s implying that due to the second car it may obfuscate if the first driver’s actions would have been lethal or just left the person injured. He’d probably rather be tried for a hit and run resulting in injury than a hit and run resulting in a death.
How relieved the original drive must feel
“I didn’t cause those injuries, it was the driverless cars” might actually work here…
maybe. eh. the car company probably has better lawyers.
Yeah but the focus will be on the driverless car, I’m not saying they are blameless, just that the general heat and attention will probably not be on them now
Im not sure that is a problem.
Autonomous vehicles are still mostly half baked, and the question of liability of who gets the blame hasn’t even preheated the oven.
The reality is company’s like waymo are using their cars in SF precisely to harvest training data because they can’t finish it without real world data- the physical driving a car is easy; interacting with humans is not.
One of my son’s coworkers was just killed in a similar incident. Woman hits a pedestrian, she freaks out and calls her boyfriend instead of emergency services, boyfriend arrives and runs over the injured pedestrian ensuring he was dead.
They are unsure which vehicle actually killed him.
Cupid’s arrow was dead on target however.
I hope both of them are getting brought up on first degree murder charges for that.
Why? Hit and run is a serious offence and the driverless car has it all on camera.
Yeah, but the general public are morons who tend to blame the wrong thing.
What have the general public got to do with it? This is a criminal offence, not a viral bit of gossip.
The general public is irrelevant here. If it weren’t for the self driving car the hit and run wouldn’t even have made the news. If it all this makes it worse for the driver.
And I don’t think there is a wrong party to blame. Both are equally fucked up.
That is exactly the kind of thing I am talking about.
Perhaps he’s implying that due to the second car it may obfuscate if the first driver’s actions would have been lethal or just left the person injured. He’d probably rather be tried for a hit and run resulting in injury than a hit and run resulting in a death.