[LINK] Google's Driverless Car Is Worth Trillions

[Kim Holburn]

On 2013/Jan/28, at 1:00 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

> On 28/01/2013 11:43 AM, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> http://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2013/01/22/fasten-your-seatbelts-googles-driverless-car-is-worth-trillions/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
> 
> If a driverless car is involved in an accident, and it is determined 
> that the behaviour of the car is at fault, who is responsible?

How would that be determined exactly?  The driverless car would for sure have all its sensors recording at least in the minutes before the accident.  

In any case the answer to your question is that whatever happened, the systems would be improved so that couldn't happen again.  And they'd keep improving.  Just like if there was an accident between 2 driverless cars.  

Do you think this is going to go away because of something like that?  If driverless cars work a fraction as well as they might they will improve  road safety.  There will be less accidents and less court cases about accidents and less deaths and injuries on the road.  Wouldn't that be worth it?


> The owner?
> The non-driver?
> The manufacturer?
> The software developer?
> 
> I don't think that the legal implications of such technology have been 
> worked out yet.
> 
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> brd
> 
> Bernard Robertson-Dunn
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