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Originally Posted by ssiguy
Even if they start to perfect the technology in all climatic conditions, the legal barriers are too great to cross. If someone is in an accident that their vehicle causes and yet the "driver" wasnt driving then who is responsible.........if you charge the "driver" that is akin to currently blaming the passenger for a driver error. Good luck getting the automakers to take responsibility. Will people even need to be able to drive or get a license for that matter.
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If the rate of accidents is lower without human drivers it is rational to switch to automated cars, all else being equal. For insurance purposes and assessing risk it does not really matter if there is a human driver.
The self-driving vehicle debate suffers from being abstract, with the pro-self-driving camp tending to wave their hands and assume all of the problems will obviously be solved and the anti-self-driving camp assuming that the question of adoption comes down to trolley problem type scenarios or philosophical debates around agency and culpability. In reality I suspect it all comes down to costs and reliability. If the technology becomes reliable enough it will be adopted, and until then it won't. Historically AI research has been prone to boom and bust cycles as new breakthroughs in approach or hardware create new unknown ceilings that are hit, and certain niche applications are developed while other basic and obvious applications remain out of reach.