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…

  • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Autonomous logic doesn’t pay insurance, does it?

    If so, who TF is paying the insurance behind the scenes, and who is responsible?

    • HumbertTetere@feddit.deEnglish
      9·
      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?

      • over_clox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        We’re talking about autonomous vehicles here, no driver, company owned.

        So is Alphabet responsible?

        Do your homework, these vehicles are owned by the parent company of Google and Apple, Alphabet. These vehicles have no private owner. So again, who TF is responsible?

        • HumbertTetere@feddit.deEnglish
          71·
          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.

        • 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.