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jpanhalt:
News from Missouri.  Will driverless taxis be liable for any STD one might contract while a passenger? 
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/geico-std-lawsuit-settlement-car
OMG   :palm:

nctnico:

--- Quote from: eti on June 09, 2022, 01:30:06 am ---If a human driver kills people, there is accountability. If SOFTWARE does so, it is waved away as "It was an unfortunate accident,

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Nope. Turns out the manufacturer of the car is responsible in such cases by law.

jbeng:
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james_s:

--- Quote from: nctnico on June 10, 2022, 09:30:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: eti on June 09, 2022, 01:30:06 am ---If a human driver kills people, there is accountability. If SOFTWARE does so, it is waved away as "It was an unfortunate accident,

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Nope. Turns out the manufacturer of the car is responsible in such cases by law.

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Where? I'm sure that's right in many places, it sounds reasonable, but it may not be the law everywhere.

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Bud on June 09, 2022, 07:19:49 pm ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on June 09, 2022, 06:08:47 pm ---We had a number of threads about AI and liability, those points are definitely valid and we could already see this is a very polarizing topic.
Yes, AI in everything is a great way of abolishing the concept of liability.

But what got me even more concerned in this particular case is how authorities are dealing with this.
As I said above, it would appear that the "new normal" is to put the precautionary principle aside and approve things that aren't formally proven safe, just because there is now a sense of emergency that would justify it and that we are all supposed to embrace.

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What kind of emergency do you refer to in regards to taxi service, or to generic autonomic passenger vehicle for that matter?  :-//

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Don't ask me. I'm not the one who gets to decide. Ask regulators.
All I'm saying is that they seem to be acting as though it was urgent to deploy those taxi services, and thus seem to be taking some unusual shortcuts.
The underlying reasons, I do not know, although we could think of a few potential causes that would be likely to trigger political action.

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