[Informatics] Ethical dilemmas - who is responsible for the first death caused by a self-driving vehicle?

[timmer at westnet.com.au]

 Apart from ethical concerns there is also a story in this about how
fundamental design decisions can have a big influence on the final
product.The nytimes article finishes with a paragraph indicating that
the Tesla's self-drive is a 'driver assist' approach.
In this TED talk,
https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_sees_the_road?language=enUrmson
explains why Google abandoned that approach and have aimed for
complete self-drive; ie assumes there is no driver (in a nut shell,
drivers treat drive-assist as self-drive and stop paying attention to
what is going on around them - danger, Will Robinson!)It will be
interesting to see how this technology goes.(maybe I'm taking this a
bit far, but it is also an interesting evaluation question: how do you
decide in 10 years time which is the safer technology: driver only,
driver-assist, or self-drive?)
RegardsRobert T-A

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the first death caused by a self-driving vehicle?

It appears that the driver has been identified as Tesla proponent
Joshua Brown, 40, of Canton,
Ohio http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/business/self-driving-tesla-fatal-crash-investigation.html?_r=0
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Oddly this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I5rraWJq6E [2]
shows a Tesla autopilot saving its owners life in April this
year. The video was uploaded by ... Tesla owner Joshua Brown of Ohio.
kp

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Mark  wrote:
It was bound to happen eventually...
"A TESLA MODEL S driver using the car’s semi-autonomous Autopilot
feature died when the car hit an 18-wheeler, the first known fatality
involving technology that remains in beta testing."
Read more...
https://www.wired.com/2016/06/teslas-autopilot-first-deadly-crash/ [4]

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