[Informatics] Ethical dilemmas - who is responsible for the first death caused by a self-driving vehicle?

[ken price]

It appears that the driver has been identified as Tesla proponent Joshua
Brown, 40, of Canton, Ohio
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/business/self-driving-tesla-fatal-crash-investigation.html?_r=0


Oddly this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I5rraWJq6E shows a Tesla
autopilot saving its owners life in April this year.
The video was uploaded by ... Tesla owner Joshua Brown of Ohio.

kp




On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:

> It was bound to happen eventually...
>
> "A TESLA MODEL S driver using the car’s semi-autonomous Autopilot feature
> died when the car hit an 18-wheeler, the first known fatality involving
> technology that remains in beta testing."
>
> Read more...
>
> https://www.wired.com/2016/06/teslas-autopilot-first-deadly-crash/
>
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