[LINK] Cars, again

[David Boxall]

On 16/11/2017 3:18 PM, Jim Birch wrote:
> "It was not autonomous, the driver was legally in control."
> 
> That's a legal technicality, isn't it?
> ...
Perhaps, if the manufacturer had ever pretended that the vehicle was 
autonomous. To the contrary, they went to great pains to emphasise that 
the driver should not rely on it. The software wasn't up to that point.

It was (and is) driver-assist technology. Like antilock brakes, 
automatic stability control and collision avoidance systems. Steps in 
that direction, but not autonomy. The manufacturer knew that. The 
manufacturer said it. Repeatedly.

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