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Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban | All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update (www.theguardian.com)
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Cruise recalls all self-driving cars after grisly accident and California ban | All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update::All 950 of the General Motors subsidiary’s autonomous cars will be taken off roads for a software update

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Instead of "what number of deaths is acceptable?" Ask, "who is responsible?"

When a human driver in control of a car hits a pedestrian, the human is responsible, not the car.

Who is responsible when a computer driven car hits a pedestrian? Also, whose insurance pays the bill?