When a driver fails they are culpable, when an auto pilot fails who is culpable, who loses a license and potentially faces criminal charges?
Auto pilot vs human drivers is not apples to apples because of the culpability question imo.
Auto pilot vs human drivers is not apples to apples because of the culpability question imo.
Alternately, your own auto liability insurance will include coverage for your car’s automaton, and again it will be priced based on risk. For most people, the premium will be lower than if they drive themselves, as the risk will be lower.
Want to start a class action lawsuit? Go for it. The company might say you've waived that right, but any such clause is null and void.
If autonomous vehicles are safer than human drivers, then ultimately they are going to be safer to ensure.
Fairly soon autopilot will be safer than new drivers and the elderly who are aging out of the ability to drive safely. I hope we have the political will to potentially save my parents' and child's life by allowing them to have an AI driver even if it's not 100% safe.
To be it must navigate any situation without any driver intervention:
- parking in tight spaces
- follow the assigned turn lanes in an intersection
- follow the local laws on turn on red
- navigating streets that are less than a meter wider than the vehicle and have vehicles parked alternating between right and left but are still both ways (very common in Europe)
- nighttime driving in heavier rain
- following diversions that are not published, badly signposted, and were set up quickly by the city due to sudden a hole or similar in the street
- follow streets without any or even wrong markings on them
Most importantly it must not drive people into dividers, well-lit emergency equipment, and/or crossing trailers.
The fun thing about this is: we both won't ever be able to prove our theories right because neither enough elderly nor enough new drivers will own a Tesla with "Autopilot". They are just too expensive.
This assumes that our hill climbing hasn't hit the top of the hill in this area. I submit that there's almost no evidence of recent continuous growth in this technology.
There are always 2 highly trained professionals in a cockpit and both are familiar with emergency situations because they regularly train for it. They are in constant contact with ATC that keeps other planes far away from them. In case of a crash or even a deviation there are entire agencies all over it with sometimes international investigators present. All communication is recorded.
A driver is not only alone, they can have very poor skills in general which were last tested 40 years ago. They are on the road with dozens of vehicles around them, tightly packed and often separated by less than a vehicle width between them. If a crash occured there may be a few police officers present that pick up the pieces and fill out forms to satisfy the insurance.
Nup. Sometimes it's just one barely trained amateur.
Lack of adequate recurring certifications or poor standards does not absolve the driver of his responsibily towards himself and more importantly to others on and near the road, same as the pilot , inadequate oversight is not an excuse.
driving a 2+ton vehicle that at the typical speeds can be fatal or cause major injury you are responsible period. Same for any other equipment or a pet
Do you still believe that the driver is responsible under those circumstances?
Anything L2 or under is a “driver assistance system”, and the driver maintains control and responsibility at all times. All of the systems in recreational or commercial aircraft today (autopilot, auto-land) are L2 or less.
This is why it’s very critical that automakers not blur the lines to drivers. We are approaching an inflection point as to who is responsible behind the wheel, the car or the AI.
The closest direct equivalent with driverless is that the vehicle may lose its right to operate until the problem has been corrected. I'd actually expect this to happen somewhat frequently in the early days.
Granted in the late 90s the self driving technology was mostly focused on closed roads and using modified systems (eg magnetic pins in the road) to help cars self locate
But it came down to: if there’s an accident who’s responsible? The driver? The car manufacturer? The road designer? The road builder? The government?
For this to all work, companies have to take responsibility (not legal, but much more ethical than Tesla has shown) for their technology and you probably need a government system like the vaccine adverse event reporting system with associated payouts.
My snarky answer says “who wrote and who is interpreting the licensing agreement”
I remember the big problem with them were stray soda cans triggering stop.
I don't see how current technological advances can any improve the local environment awareness of the car until the actual cognition element is there.