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Who Is Responsible If Self-Driving Car Crashes, Causes Damages, Deaths

Who Is Responsible If Self-Driving Car Crashes, Causes Damages, Deaths

Automobiles, Technology
Legislation to autonomous vehicle is currently in its infancy and hence not easy to say who will be responsible for crashes of driverless cars that causes physical harm, property damages and in some cases even leads to death. As of now corporate giants like Volvo and Tesla have come forward publicly to be taking responsibility of the crashes, or any other faults, in the self-driving cars' software. Meanwhile, Comma AI's CEO George Hotz has a different tone when it comes to taking responsibility. He strictly advises people to download paid version of his self-driving vehicle software and not the free version if he is to stand responsible for any accidents causes by fault in the software. In one of his recent emails to media houses he wrote, "It's not my code, I did not release ...