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Friday, 17 November 2017
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Boston Dynamics advances:
What's new, Atlas? The New SpotMini Compare a fully automated warehouse JD.com Fully Automated Warehouse in Shanghai To the current Amazon Fulfillment centers being rolled out across the country. Amazon Warehouse Robots : Mind Blowing Video All those jobs Amazon is creating for hefty tax breaks have a limited shelf life, if you'll pardon the pun.
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sacrelicious said @ 4:54pm GMT on 17th November
liability issues are going to kill the self-driving car. which is not to say that those liability issues are wrong, just that they're too much for on, or a few companies to bear.
today when two cars collide the liability can be on either of the drivers, or the car manufacturer if it's shown to be a malfunction. that spreads the liability amongst hundreds of thousands of entities per year. but what if there's three or four self driving car companies (or one or two self-driving AI producers) accounting for, say, half the market for them, suddenly a small number of entities are responsible for a huge number of deaths. even if the technology drives the overall casualty rate down. they would, then, have to carry an insurance burden that would not make it cost effective to them, or they would have to chip away a the public's access to seek damages and recompense through legislation and immunity from lawsuit/prosecution. one's really bad for them, the other is really bad for us.
even leaving the difficult legal matters out of it, there's still the ethical and philosophical questions. say the death rate on roads drops from 1.3 million annually to half that. do you, as a Google of a Ford, etc, want to be responsible for 650,000 deaths a year (or whatever your share of that may be), even knowing if you didn't assume that responsibility it would be higher? and what happens when it drifts from the public memory and perception that it ever was higher? given enough time people simply aren't going to accept the net savings of lives when all they can see are the gross statistics.
right or wrong, and not casting judgement on any party in this scenario, nobody wants that amount of blood on their hands. I mean, unless Remington gets into the self-driving car business.
sacrelicious said @ 4:55pm GMT on 17th November
liability issues are going to kill the self-driving car. which is not to say that those liability issues are wrong, just that they're too much for one, or a few companies to bear.
today when two cars collide the liability can be on either of the drivers, or the car manufacturer if it's shown to be a malfunction. that spreads the liability amongst hundreds of thousands of entities per year. but what if there's three or four self driving car companies (or one or two self-driving AI producers) accounting for, say, half the market for them, suddenly a small number of entities are responsible for a huge number of deaths. even if the technology drives the overall casualty rate down. they would, then, have to carry an insurance burden that would not make it cost effective to them, or they would have to chip away a the public's access to seek damages and recompense through legislation and immunity from lawsuit/prosecution. one's really bad for them, the other is really bad for us.
even leaving the difficult legal matters out of it, there's still the ethical and philosophical questions. say the death rate on roads drops from 1.3 million annually to half that. do you, as a Google of a Ford, etc, want to be responsible for 650,000 deaths a year (or whatever your share of that may be), even knowing if you didn't assume that responsibility it would be higher? and what happens when it drifts from the public memory and perception that it ever was higher? given enough time people simply aren't going to accept the net savings of lives when all they can see are the gross statistics.
right or wrong, and not casting judgement on any party in this scenario, nobody wants that amount of blood on their hands. I mean, unless Remington gets into the self-driving car business.
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sacrelicious said @ 4:54pm GMT on 17th November [Score:1 Insightful]
liability issues are going to kill the self-driving car. which is not to say that those liability issues are wrong, just that they're too much for one, or a few companies to bear.
today when two cars collide the liability can be on either of the drivers, or the car manufacturer if it's shown to be a malfunction. that spreads the liability amongst hundreds of thousands of entities per year. but what if there's three or four self driving car companies (or one or two self-driving AI producers) accounting for, say, half the market for them, suddenly a small number of entities are responsible for a huge number of deaths. even if the technology drives the overall casualty rate down. they would, then, have to carry an insurance burden that would not make it cost effective to them, or they would have to chip away a the public's access to seek damages and recompense through legislation and immunity from lawsuit/prosecution. one's really bad for them, the other is really bad for us.
even leaving the difficult legal matters out of it, there's still the ethical and philosophical questions. say the death rate on roads drops from 1.3 million annually to half that. do you, as a Google of a Ford, etc, want to be responsible for 650,000 deaths a year (or whatever your share of that may be), even knowing if you didn't assume that responsibility it would be higher? and what happens when it drifts from the public memory and perception that it ever was higher? given enough time people simply aren't going to accept the net savings of lives when all they can see are the gross statistics.
right or wrong, and not casting judgement on any party in this scenario, nobody wants that amount of blood on their hands. I mean, unless Remington gets into the self-driving car business.
Tesla's new semi truck has a 500 mile range - They also have the Autopilot functionality. It's very likely they will be capable of being upgraded to full Self Driving capability.