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Originally Posted by Buehler445
Yeah, that ****ing sucks.
I want some sort of autopilot pretty bad. I drive a lot of miles on county roads that it obviously wouldn't work on, but there are a lot of highway miles that I would get a TON of value out of mentally checking out for a few minutes.
I've long said that Automated driving will outperform humans, but the liability will fall on the manufacturers, and that will be a problem.
Obviously I was wrong on it shitcanning the whole thing, but it looks like the lawyers are still fighting.
How long until someone Jailbreaks a Tesla? LOL
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My guess is it will take an act of congress to carve out an exception for automated cars.
If China/Japan/Europe have successfully* deployed driverless cars and the USA has not, maybe, and who knows with our politics...
There might be enough public push to have a liability law where driverless car wrecks are treated more like regular car wrecks with insurance as opposed to the type of liability Boeing would face for deploying a dangerous airplane.
*Successfully being defined as say something like 1/10 the accident and death rate of human drivers but not requiring a zero rate.