The world’s biggest maker of sensors for self-driving cars has poured cold water on the chance of rapid growth for fully autonomous vehicles, saying society and regulators are not ready to accept deaths caused by machines that drive themselves.
“Close to one million people lose their lives every year to car accidents. If a technology company builds a vehicle that kills one person every year, that’s one-millionth of the difference, but it will have trouble to survive,” said Li in an interview."
I suspect the biggest obstacle to fully autonomous vehicles is the backlash against the unemployment they will cause. Safety will be used as an excuse to bolster that narrative. My guess is that by the 2030s, it will be clear to most people that they are far safer. They already are now, and they will be far more advanced then.
Top sensor maker Hesai warns world not ready for driverless cars
The car companies would have a sort of malpractice insurance similar to surgeons. Or they would just pay for it directly if they are that certain of their product. It doesn’t really have to be that complicated.
As for accepting liability, that’s what the courts are for… Just don’t buy cars with forced arbitration agreements.
Is that what they’ll do.
It sure is a lot of work to not have trains, isn’t it?
Because Japan, Korea and Europe don’t have cars.