The "driver" is the one with responsibility for an accident if they cause it. With self-driving cars, the person in it is just a passenger. It's going to be a whole new legal funhouse once they start becoming more common.
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Acknowledged, but we're already talking about having to have new laws created to reflect the new reality, and there's no world in which a new law would require anyone "to pay for every single accident that happens in the entire country," There's already diversification in the companies that run these kinds of cars. If there's blame to be assigned, and if it's not to the passenger, the owner of the vehicle is a strong possibility. There are other options, but none of them involve paying for more accidents than can legitimately be tied to the specific incidents in question.
Why would the owner be responsibile instead of the manufacturer?
A self-driving car that causes accidents is an unsafe product, which means the responsility is on those who made it unsafe.
The owner would only be responsible if they modified it or something.
A self-driving car that causes accidents is an unsafe product, which means the responsility is on those who made it unsafe.
The owner would only be responsible if they modified it or something.
I think Blackrock is being purposely obtuse and misinterpreting my statement as saying each company, individually, would be responsible for their own products as well as everyone else's. That every time a Tesla car crashes, for example, not only will Tesla have to pay for it, but every other car company in existence will also be charged that same amount just out of spite, I guess? Like if you take my wording 100% literally, an AI or Amelia Bedelia might assume that's what I meant.
The point is, you're not giving an honest argument for why the legal questions are difficult, precisely because you're using hyperbole. So, yes, I was demonstrating absurdity by being absurd.
As to NovaSaber's question, I agree that the manufacturer... or even more likely, the programmer... would be a far more reasonable responsible party.
It gets simple when it comes to Robotaxi, since the car and the AI are all part of the same empire. Either way, if it's fully autonomous then there is no legal theory why the rider would be responsible for accidents.