I think the biggest problem would be the transition period when both self
and human driven cars will be on the road -- once it is completed and every
single vehicle will be self driven one no one would sue anyone as there
will be significantly less accidents and then when it happens machines
would not want to find all kind of excuses why it happened and who's fault
was that -- no need lawyers or police involved.

Tamas


On 11 February 2012 05:31, YES NOPE9 <yes@nope9.com> wrote:

> It seems pretty simple to me.
> These vehicles will be loaded with sensors and recording devices.
> If an accident occurs... tons of data will indicate who or what caused th=
e
> accident.
> A percentage will be applied to each vehicle or external event.... and wh=
o
> is in control will be ascertained.
> Kind of creepy.... but not particularly hard to determine.
> 99guspuppet
>
>
> > On Feb 10, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Denny Esterline wrote:
> >
> > Not long ago many manufacturers were dumping significant sums of money
> into
> > various self driving car ideas. The whole scene got very quiet after on=
e
> > question was asked:
> > When a self driving car injures someone, who's responsible?
> > (translate that into "who get's sued")
> >
> > In my opinion, we won't see significant deployment of this tech until
> > someone has a very good answer to that question.
> >
> > -Denny
>
>
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