No, that's discussing complex systems and important principles to adopt when creating and maintaining them.
>In the context of driving, blame is almost always placed on individuals.
In the context of driving accidents, almost always no autonomous vehicle function is involved, and yet this topic is about an autonomous vehicle function.
Moreover, if we're going to assign blame, there's plenty of blame to go around. Blame individuals if you want, but that doesn't prevent policymakers from analyzing the system in aggregate and mandating changes which, irrespective of which individuals get blamed, saves lives. That's what we want to happen, isn't it? To save lives?
Except for Waymo, none of the "self driving cars" are legally autonomous vehicles. They're just driver assistance systems, like advanced cruise control, and drivers are still responsible for maintaining control of the car at all times.
Tesla should probably be in a lot more trouble for falsely advertising these systems as "autopilot" or "full self driving", but even they make it clear after purchase that these are actually just driver assistance systems.
I see that my hopes that readers would understand that I wrote "autonomous vehicle function" and not "autonomous vehicle" deliberately to avoid confusing the two, that I wasn't using a legal definition, and that I was doing this to distinguish the majority of accidents that don't involve self driving cars or plain old cruise control from the minority of accidents that do, has not been fulfilled. Oh well, there's always next year.
In any case, drivers are not totally responsible. After all, what if there's a defect in let's say an "advanced cruise control" system and it's a factor in accidents? Can you rule out the possibility that a jury in a class action suit would assign some blame to the manufacturer?
Sorry, I can't read your mind. Why don't you just use the standard term "advanced driver assistance system"?
I don't want to speculate on what juries might do, but the first such lawsuit was decided recently. The driver's family "blamed a malfunction by the car’s driver-assistance software for the crash", nonetheless Tesla was assigned zero responsibility.
No, that's discussing complex systems and important principles to adopt when creating and maintaining them.
>In the context of driving, blame is almost always placed on individuals.
In the context of driving accidents, almost always no autonomous vehicle function is involved, and yet this topic is about an autonomous vehicle function.
Moreover, if we're going to assign blame, there's plenty of blame to go around. Blame individuals if you want, but that doesn't prevent policymakers from analyzing the system in aggregate and mandating changes which, irrespective of which individuals get blamed, saves lives. That's what we want to happen, isn't it? To save lives?