So, if this 2 or 3 ton driverless hunk of metal runs over your wife or
one of your children, who do you sue? The owner who was asleep in the
back seat or the car manufacturer who built the thing?
Call me old fashioned, but I don't trust high tech all that much. What
happens when the sensors get dirty? My truck has a backup camera which
is a wonderful device but sometimes (like right now) it is so dirty as
to be useless.
Aircraft have been flying along on autopilot for a long while but
professional people who are well trained to react in an emergency are at
the controls ready to do their best to remedy any problem that may
arise. If problems do arise, there is a fair bit of room to manoeuvre up
there. Not so much on a 2 lane highway where one is only a few feet away
from the truck going the other direction. We know people will not
concentrate on the task of driving if the car is on autopilot. They
don't do so good now. They text etc when they should be paying
attention, so we cannot rely upon a "driver" in a driverless car to be
ready to take over if the electronics are not doing a good job of it. We
have already had the case of the Tesla owner who got himself killed by
not paying attention to what the car was doing.
RB
On 22/02/2018 3:21 PM, clay monroe via Mercedes wrote:
https://tinyurl.com/yaw7pkh8
clay
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1986 SDL - Polei
1982 300 SD - Allen
retired models-
2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored crap
1976 300D - Blei Vanst - it looks silvery
1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran
1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV
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