Whose Fault Is a Driverless-Car Crash?
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Whose Fault Is a Driverless-Car Crash?
Some possibilities not contemplated in this brief Time piece:
- software developer for driving computer
- component designer/manufacturer of driving computer
- technician who performed final calibration of driving computer
- technician who installed driving computer
- creator of simulation software used by technician to test computer
In fact, car manufacturers and passengers are probably less likely to be at fault than any of the folks I list above.
After all, when a computer messes up in the present, it’s not really messing up: it’s telling you a human messed up in the past.