Whatever accidents happen on a car driven by human, it is usually the fault of the driver. For self-driving cars, then it becomes that the manufacturers are responsible for all accidents. This is unmanageable liability.
You know what will be an unmanageable liability? When the insurance adjusters start taking into account the fact that you could be reducing your risk of taking their money by switching to a self-driving car, not to mention the fact that if you get into an accident with a self-driving car and you were in control the liability will be all on you (and them).
Once someone starts selling these things, insurance for city drivers who insist on driving themselves will skyrocket.
Where's your data? According to Google, their cars have gone 300,000 miles without an accident under autonomous control. At this rate, we wouldn't need auto insurance... so probably this liability cost will simply be part of the car's purchase price or a new type of insurance product offered to those who buy these cars.
On well-maintained roads that the software has been specifically trained on, with very expensive sensors and equipment, with a human driver that can take over instantly. Not that the work isn't impressive, but this 300k-no-accidents claim is just marketing spin and doesn't tell us anything about how close the system is to being ready for use.
It is more like the manufacturer is suddenly in the role of a public transport company. Self driving cars are more like small buses than personal cars.
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Whatever accidents happen on a car driven by human, it is usually the fault of the driver. For self-driving cars, then it becomes that the manufacturers are responsible for all accidents. This is unmanageable liability.
You know what will be an unmanageable liability? When the insurance adjusters start taking into account the fact that you could be reducing your risk of taking their money by switching to a self-driving car, not to mention the fact that if you get into an accident with a self-driving car and you were in control the liability will be all on you (and them).
Once someone starts selling these things, insurance for city drivers who insist on driving themselves will skyrocket.
Make insurance part of the purchase price. Individual death is covered by insurance all the time.
But yeah, testing is going to need to be very rigorous to make sure there are no regressions.
Where's your data? According to Google, their cars have gone 300,000 miles without an accident under autonomous control. At this rate, we wouldn't need auto insurance... so probably this liability cost will simply be part of the car's purchase price or a new type of insurance product offered to those who buy these cars.
On well-maintained roads that the software has been specifically trained on, with very expensive sensors and equipment, with a human driver that can take over instantly. Not that the work isn't impressive, but this 300k-no-accidents claim is just marketing spin and doesn't tell us anything about how close the system is to being ready for use.
It is more like the manufacturer is suddenly in the role of a public transport company. Self driving cars are more like small buses than personal cars.