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veen · 3823 days ago · link · · parent · post: Would a Google car sacrifice you for the sake of the many?
To add, this Atlantic article talks about who is liable when a self-driving car fails. It suggests that the Google car is no different from other products and that the products liability laws will adjust. There’s no doubt that accidents involving autonomous vehicles will put challenging new liability questions before the courts. But that doesn’t mean the courts will be unable to address them. And it doesn’t mean that we have to put the autonomous-vehicle industry on hold so legislators can attempt to preemptively draft and enact an entirely new set of liability laws that anticipate everything that might go wrong. It’s an exercise that would be as impossible as it is unnecessary.