[ExI] Tesla autopilot

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 13:36, spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >>…BillK, it's a critical question: does the car have a steering wheel or
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> it not?  In the USA, it is aaaaalll about liability.  If the car has a
> steering wheel and the autopilot screws up, the driver is liable.  If no
> steering wheel, the company is at fault.
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> >…At some point it won't be the company that is at fault, but the car
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> Ja, but irrelevant.  Teams of hungry lawyers will not sue a car.  They
> will go after the company which built it.
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If cars become as intelligent and as conscious as humans there would be no
reason for them not to have the same rights and responsibilities as humans,
although no doubt there will be a movement to keep them enslaved.

> If anyone owns a no-steering-wheel car, my sincere advice is never get
> near it with a wrench.  Never do anything which would cause you to hold any
> liability.
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