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San Francisco protestors are disabling autonomous vehicles using traffic cones | "It's a great time" (www.techspot.com)
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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...

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[–] -4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (8 children)

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?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Companies also never seem to be held accountable. OceanGate anybody?...

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

    Alphabet don't own Apple.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'll take your word on that. I've edited my comment to reflect that, but last research I did a few years ago, both companies were under the umbrella of Alphabet.

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