Driverless cars have the ability to provide many benefits, from helping the elderly remain independent to reducing the number of road accidents. However, disasters can still happen and someone needs to be held accountable. Who should pay the damages – the car owner, the car producer, the government, some other entity? Discuss your thoughts on this technology, whether you find it useful, necessary, unnerving, interesting, etc. and who you think should be liable for accidents involving driverless cars.
Driverless cars have the ability to provide many benefits, from helping the elderly remain independent to reducing the number of road accidents. However, disasters can still happen and someone needs to be held accountable. Who should pay the damages – the car owner, the car producer, the government, some other entity? Discuss your thoughts on this technology, whether you find it useful, necessary, unnerving, interesting, etc. and who you think should be liable for accidents involving driverless cars.
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There aren’t actually great answers from anyone for this question. Though it would result in great benefits, whom to blame if crash down happens by automated vehicles. Some acceptable answers include, if its clear that, the vehicle’s operating system is what has caused the collision, then the manufacturer is at fault. And, the insurers are to be given part of the data access of the vehicle, so that if a crash happens, the insurers would be able to say who is at fault.
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