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

[Roland Gesthuizen]

At least the black box will be easier to find.  I can imagine the 2026 crash investigation TV documentary, "Last moments .." With human error diminished as a cause of accidents, we may discover new causes such as failure to update a vehicle OS or the man sent his dog on a journey to bring home a newspaper etc.

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> On 1 Jul 2016, at 4:34 PM, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:
> 
> It was bound to happen eventually...
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> "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...
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> https://www.wired.com/2016/06/teslas-autopilot-first-deadly-crash/
> 
> -- 
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> Mark Kelly
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> mark at vceit.com
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