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Originally Posted by polak
A) Planes don't have to usually deal with other planes losing control or making other unpredictable decisions. When they do, I believe we usually hear about 100-300 people losing their lives...
B) Planes have millions of people employed to make sure that they don't collide with one another. Literally a massive, massive network probably worth billions of dollars.
C) Planes (pilots) can talk to each other.
D) Planes aren't fully selfcontrolled. They still have a highly trained pilot at the controls. Guess what happens when literally ANYTHING goes wrong in a plane? The pilot takes over control.
Seriously man, you couldn't have come up with a worse example.
As for the liability, what happens when there is one little fault in a car that causes an accident these days? Massive recalls, and billions of dollars in lawsuits right? Well now imagine if every single accident that happens in the world is the fault of the manufacturer. Yeah.
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The answer is to all your questions is Better than a human. If a human swerves right in front of the computer car it does the same thing a human does, brakes, looks for available space to move into to get out of the way. Only the computer drives it faster.
From a liability standpoint insurance would cover the accidents, wether that is built into the price of the vehicle and covered by the manufacturuer or by the individual paying the premium. Either way these are easy barriers to legislate your way out of.