alt Hacker NewsWe do tend to impose them on individual drivers who make egregious and consequential failures, that’s the point. If every car running the same software is functionally the same ‘driver’ this class of failure absolutely should trigger a moratorium.
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>We do tend to impose them on individual drivers who make egregious and consequential failures, that’s the point.
Do we? It's a common saying that if you want to kill someone with no penalties, have them run over with a car.
Then there are examples like these all over the place. Not to mention distracted driving and DUIs don't even get your license suspended in many or most jurisdictions.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/teen-w...
>The Audi, which Jones had bought one month before the crash, was the third car he had totaled in a crash within 11 months. Speed was a factor in all three collisions, but police did not cite Jones in the first two crashes, prosecutors said.
I think this is a fantastic distinction to make, and one I haven’t seen before.