Latest Development In Driverless Cars.

[EDDIE51]

Driverless cars have finally cracked the accident problem
http://www.theonion.com/articles/engineers-unveil-new-driverless-car-capable-of-com,38358/

[bhg481]

Brilliant!!

[SlackAlice]

☺☺☺

Available as a 'Extra' from the manufacturer?

[ToraToraTora]

we will never have driverless cars, not for technological reasons but for legal ones.

[jno]

advanced Culpability-Evasion System

...currently being trialled ehre in election debates.

[Old_Geezer]

Oh I don't believe that TTT. Legal wrangling may take a while, but it isn't insurmountable.

[ToraToraTora]

I'm pi55ed, asleep on the back seat of my car as it drives me home. It runs over a child. Who's fault is it? When that can be resolved we can have driverless cars.

[EDDIE51]

TTT driverless cars are already legal in Utah and California USA.
May be 20 years away but we will see them on UK roads.

[crzyryn]

Is it not simple? Just make the person still in charge of the vehicle. No drugs, no alcohol. Common sense?

[Old_Geezer]

IMO if the child ran out in frint of the car, then their parents are responsible; but if a car malfunction caused the tragedy then either the design/manufacturer company of the car is responsible, or if they have performed due dilligence then either the last service establishment or it is an unavoidable tragedy and no one takes blame.

[Old_Geezer]

That would make it a waste of time buying a driverless car crzyryn. The whole point is to be a passenger not the responsible party with no influence on the car's actions. That's just scapegoating.

[Hymie]

TTT – it’s a question of whether you want one child a day killed by a drunk driver, or probably less than one child a year killed by an errant driverless car; I know which I’d prefer.

In the not too distant future, people will not bother to learn to drive – why go to all that trouble and expense to learn, just to do something a machine can do far, far better than you (on your best day)?

[Old_Geezer]

And I typed front not frint. Have never typed frint in my life.
$^^"#$"/ damned mobiles. Worse than PCs.

[ToraToraTora]

"Is it not simple? Just make the person still in charge of the vehicle. No drugs, no alcohol. Common sense? " yes but no point in having a drverless car then. I would rather drive it myself if I'm going to be held resposible for what it does anyway. Eddie: how do they resolve accidents in Utah then? It may be technicaly legal but just wait until someone crashes. Perhaps hymie but statistics are no defence in court. OG, the problem is that all those things are a matter of opinion and impossible to prove, what if a tyre bursts who are you going to pin that on? the tyre manufacturer? the firm that made the nail that went through it? The truck that dropped the nail? The man that mined the ore to make the nail. Stand on me the legal obstacles are insurmountable.

[ToraToraTora]

if the day ever comes when i can sleep on the back seat of my car as it takes me home legally I'll eat mine and everybody elses hat.

[Hymie]

In the fullness of time, humans will not be permitted by law to control powered vehicles on our roads – our law makers will realise that under human control just too many accidents occur.

Before that happens, there will be a time when both autonomous and human controlled vehicles coexist on our roads. But this period will be short, in that no one will want to learn to drive, and those who want to control their vehicle will pay a heavy insurance premium – due to the increased risk involved.

I’m sure most would be happy to have their insurance premium slashed by a factor of 10, or more – which went to payout the small number of no fault claims.

[TWR]

I think Eddie's link has said it all.

[Hymie]

One thing for sure that will be fitted to autonomous vehicles is 360 degree continuous image recording.

Imagine for your drive to work next week, you have a choice of your current car – or an autonomous vehicle, which statistically is >90% less likely to be involved in an accident compared with you driving your car – and you can relax doing whatever you please during the journey.
Only a fool would choose to drive themselves.

[Old_Geezer]

Who do you blame for a burst tyre these days ? Act of God (or whatever) I'd suspect. Unless the tyre was proven worn or clearly defective.

[Svejk]

One of my 'favourite' accident reports. The bloke who bought a brand new Winnebago. Got it up to 60mph on the freeway. Put it into 'cruise control'. And then went in the back to make himself a coffee.

[Hymie]

Svejk, what was amazing about that accident is that the bloke won the case against Winnebago (only in America).