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Janus says...

I have to wonder about liability and related problems for self-driving vehicles.

Say an accident happens which is at least partly the fault of the vehicle, as good as it may or may not be at avoiding accidents. Who is liable, considering the car was driving itself? The owner, who may not even be in the car? The car company, or the company who provided the software which was driving the car (which could be the same company)?

I could see liability being a big potential problem for these car companies, especially in the early days before the legal issues get ironed out.

Also, what if there's actually nobody in the car when the accident happens? Even if it's a minor accident I imagine the vehicle would need some way of reporting it. Would the vehicle always stop and stay at the location of the accident?

Eh, just some of the issues on the path to widely used self-driving vehicles that I'll be interested to see play out.

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Janus says...

Similar here, though it hearkens me back to Road Rash on 3DO (yeah, I'm one of the few people who had one of those overpriced systems):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuX6D-gY5VY

That and the 3DO release of Star Control 2 (which the relatively recent remastered version released for free as The Ur-Quan Masters borrowed a lot from) redeemed the system.

philippeoc said:

Am I the only one who can't help but think of the game Road Rash on Sega Genesis as I watch this? Hell, I never thought anything in real life could get so close to my all time favorite racing game. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JimhxCE0hhA

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Janus says...

I don't even have a problem with spiders as such (useful little buggers for eating up various annoying insects), but it would still creep me the fuck out walking underneath that.



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