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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
People's attitudes to safety are rarely rational. And then there's the big problem of liability. Do you program self-driving cars to minimize harm to the driver, or total harm to everybody? What happens the first time a self-driving car slams into a concrete barrier to avoid killing pedestrians, and kills the driver instead? Or kills a pedestrian to avoid harm to the driver? Lawyers are going to have a field day with this stuff.
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Yeah, they have to figure out liability, but how does it work today? Right now when facing a potential accident humans make a range of choices and people don't go bananas...I think liability will probably end up with the manufacturer