Comment by neximo64
3 years ago
They wont go anywhere until theres a legal way for the company making the tech to shift liability to drivers for the odd chance it'll crash. That's the issue, that needs to be solved more.
3 years ago
They wont go anywhere until theres a legal way for the company making the tech to shift liability to drivers for the odd chance it'll crash. That's the issue, that needs to be solved more.
Driver liability should never be lost. Trusting a marketing campaign to not kill someone is a (bad) choice, that that user must be liable for. They are still driving the car; recklessly. It's their job to be in control of these megajoules.
Conventionally, drivers are liable on the physics level... because they have skin in the game. When I pass another car on a 2 lane road at 100mph+ relative velocity, we both (conventionally) have a strong incentive to not mess up.
That's a feature. Same goes (unfortunately) for people who make life or death decisions based on marketing campaigns.
All that said while skipping over the elephant, which is that they do not work; for fundamental reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33221575