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xrdtoday at 3:17 PM0 repliesview on HN

I remember seeing Kevin Kelly (founder of Wired) speak about 15 years ago when he was touring to promote "What Technology Wants."

He was talking about autonomous driving cars. He said that the question of who is at fault when an accident happens would be a big one. Would it be the owner of the car? Or, the developer of the software in the car?

Who is at fault here? Our legal system may not be prepared to handle this.

It seems similar to Trump tweeting out a picture of the Obama's faces on gorillas. Was it his "staffer?" Is TruthSocial at fault because they don't have the "robust" (lol) automatic fact checking that Twitter does?

If so, why doesn't his "staffer" get credit for the covfefe meme? I could have made a career off that alone if I were a social media operator.

He also mentioned that we will probably ignore the hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries every year due to human orchestrated traffic accidents. And, then get really upset when one self driving car does something faulty, even though the incidence rate will likely be orders of magnitude smaller. Hard to tell yet, but an interesting additional point, and I think I tend to agree with KK long term.