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[-] underisk@hexbear.net 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

So if they have confirmed cases of people being injured by these things, who gets held legally responsible for them when they kill or injure someone, and how? If I unleash a murderous robot that only kills and injures one seventh of the people cars do am I legally in the clear as long as he picks up a few fares during his rampage?

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 3 points 9 hours ago

I wish I could give you an actual solid answer but I'm not a lawyer. My suspicion is that if Boeing could kill 346 people with their 737 MAX negligence without anyone going to jail, then

  • The people responsible for the self driving car software
  • The people in Waymo who collate the evidence for why it can go on-road
  • The legislators reviewing that evidence and approving it

Would have little to no legal consequences except if there is a very obvious negligence, like what happened to Uber. In this case this resulted in,

  • negligent homicide for the person legally driving
  • suspension of autonomous vehicle testing which led to shuttering the whole division

But it's a different one as there was a driver "monitoring" the system. I don't know how it would pan out in a driverless case to be honest.

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