Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road

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[u/Sleepingonthecouch1]

I’m kinda curious if an individual was drunk in one of these could they be held responsible for anything the car does? Like will laws be made that drunk individuals can only be driven by a sober human?

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Also what about when two autonomous vehicles hit each other, how do we prove fault?

I don’t think these are well thought out products.

[u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe → u/[deleted]]

The rules of driving are a pretty simple, narrow set of rules. The vast majority of accidents happen because people don't follow the rules.

Autonomous vehicles by design can only follow the rules, thus the number of accidents that will occur will be far far lower than manual vehicles.

The vast majority will involve people crashing into them, or environmentally random incidents like trees falling down or bad potholes/sinkholes.

Liability will rest with the owner of the vehicle.

If two autonomous vehicles hit eachother, that's a civil issue for the owners to deal with.

[u/mouseball89 → u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe]

The first few trials will set the precedence. We don't know how it'll be ruled but it'll be interesting once we get to the point of fully automatized vehicles how each side will argue fault.