Would a driverless NASCAR spin out the car in front of it to win a race?
Looking forward to the driverless car. They will probably be much better than most drivers. Granted they will start off by having express lanes and such with limited roads and areas. Just hope the technology arrives to a point where I can call a car, hop in, and drop me off at my destination. Great for soon to be old codgers.
Driverless vehicles in blinding snowstorms on narrow, windy, high mountain roads?
4X4’s on rough trails in the backcountry? I don’t think so.
I’ll keep my manual shift, hand cranked wind up window, Jeep controlled by me thanks.
Il just wondering who is liable in an accident involving a driverless car.
If you ever are stupid enough to buy a driverless car, someday the windows will roll up, the doors will lock, and your car will deliver you to prison.
A “driverless” car has a driver—the government.
Now consider if that is not a child, but a raccoon. Would you want your driverless car to swerve and put you and your family at risk? A human driver can discern the difference between a raccoon and a human child. That happened to me once, where a raccoon was in my path and stood up. I ran over it rather than swerve, because I would crash into oncoming traffic or into obstacles. Felt bad for the raccoon, but my family is more important.
That is the wrong first question to ask. Who comes up with these red herrings?
The place to begin is with the obvious relevant isuue.
In case of accidents and deaths, who is liable?
The manufacturer of the car?
The author of its software and the designer/manufacturer of its navigation hardware?
Or the owner/Operator?
Not necessarily so murky. Just have the owner/passenger go through a survey to determine his preferences in advance, kind of like a living will:
If it’s a choice between decreasing the risk of killing an x (your child, the child of someone you know, an unknown child, your family’s pet, your neighbor’s pet, a random cat or dog, a random mammal, a reptile or amphibian) and increasing the risk to yourself of death or injury, what tradeoffs do you want your semi-sentient car to make?
Reardon Metal is unsafe and a danger to children.