San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones
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Safe Streets Rebel's protest comes after automatic vehicles were blamed for incidents including crashing into a bus and running over a dog. City officials in June said...

Safe Streets Rebel’s protest comes after automatic vehicles were blamed for incidents including crashing into a bus and running over a dog. City officials in June said…

    • HumbertTetere@feddit.deEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      If your insurance determined that an autonomous vehicle will cause less damage over time than a human driver, they will do that, yes.

        • HumbertTetere@feddit.deEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          If so, who TF is paying the insurance behind the scenes

          The owner of the vehicle is probably very openly paying.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Here’s a question- if you have to agree to terms of service for the vehicle to function, and I’m guessing you would, is it really your vehicle?

            • HumbertTetere@feddit.deEnglish
              7·
              1 year ago

              So what? It’s not the gotcha you apparently believe to have found, companies can have insurance…

                • CoderKat@lemm.eeEnglish
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  That’s not a good example. Courts move slow and that just barely happened and AFAIK is still being investigated (plus searching, the participants signed wavers – though wavers don’t give immunity legal negligence).

                  There’s plenty of examples of companies being punished for negligence. It happens all the time when, say, their poorly constructed building collapses, cutting corners causes an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, they falsified their vehicle emissions reports, or when they abuse their market dominance.

                  Corporations totally do get away with a lot, but I don’t see why you’d expect self driving cars to be a place where that would happen, especially since manually driven cars are already so regulated and require insurance. And everyone knows that driving is dangerous. Nobody is under any false impressions that self driving cars don’t have at least some of that same danger. I mean, even if the AI was utterly perfect, they’d still need insurance to protect against cases that aren’t the AI’s fault.

            • Whirlybird@aussie.zoneEnglish
              4·
              1 year ago

              these vehicles are owned by the parent company of Google and Apple, Alphabet.

              Alphabet don’t own Apple.

    • CoderKat@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      I mean, why shouldn’t it? Is a programming glitch in a self driving all that different from a mechanical issue in a manually driven car?