And this is the moral debate....companies are going to get their ASS SUED!!!! Who are they to determine who lives and dies when a choice has to be made. No AI. People need to be accountable for their actions. Period. If machines are going to do everything for us then we are the disease and should be eliminated. Terminator is real folks and that is the path this all leads to.

The lawyers always win…can’t speak for Australia but in the US that’s who really runs the country…..

Great question….I am sure the answer by the insurance company is going to be whoever owns the car. That’s their out.

Until laws are in place that hold the manufacturer of a driverless car accountable for ANYTHING that happens if that feature is enabled I am completely against it. It’s their logic/programming that chooses the action/outcome of who gets injured or dies. Who gives them that right to decide. You are buying a product and relying on their service….so they should be accountable and their insurance should cover anything accident related…but at the end of the day they will just charge more so you will pay for it anyway. It’s a bunch of BS.

Currently if you drive and cause an accident you are held accountable and that is how it should be IF you are driving…..but if you are not the one driving you are just a passenger at that point.

Until there are laws governing accountability I am against it. We can all agree the technology has a way to go for it to be proven safe.

There are some people that are just bad drivers that shouldn’t drive so there is a a practical need for self driving. No more drunk driving, get bad drivers from behind the wheel, etc. So I am all for technology to advance to make things better. We have long way to go before we are there.

With you on all of that…and most importantly get rid of drunk driving. Of all the reasons to not have an accident that one is so easy to avoid but people still get behind the wheel….get an Uber. It’s so simple.