[LINK] Google's Driverless Car Is Worth Trillions

Kim Holburn kim.holburn at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 15:49:32 AEDT 2013


On 2013/Jan/28, at 3:10 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

> On 28/01/2013 2:48 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> As now, by a court of law. And AFAIK, the law doesn't work on "exactly", 
> just various levels of probability, depending on the court - i.e. 
> criminal or civil..
> 
>> The driverless car would for sure have all its sensors recording at least in the minutes before the accident.
> 
> "... for sure..."? You have a wonderful confidence in technology. 

Well, I think they can only get better.  I don't have a wonderful confidence in our legal system.

> Suppose one of the sensors malfunctioned? At least it would limited to a 
> on-off case. What about a design fault?
> 
> There's discussion re this subject here:
> http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/24/are-driverless-cars-really-in-our-near-future.html 
> 
> 
> and this guy
> http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/01/the-driverless-car-liability-question-gets-ahead-of-itself.html
> thinks that "...driverless cars might present a liability problem for 
> anyone who doesn’t own one — a human driver who crashes into a 
> driverless car will find it nearly impossible to show he’s not at fault."
> 
>> There will beless  fewer accidents andless  fewer court cases about accidents andless  fewer deaths and injuries on the road.  Wouldn't that be worth it?
> 
> I'm not commenting on the worth or otherwise of such technology, just 
> pointing out that there are non-technology issues yet to be sorted.
> 
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> 
> Regards
> brd
> 
> Bernard Robertson-Dunn
> Sydney Australia
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