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Volvo to 'accept full liability' for crashes with its driverless cars

Adam 1

Re: What ifs

I will believe that when I see a director go to jail over cheating an emissions test. No, it will be the fault of some low level engineer and we had no idea and thank you for my golden handshake.

Let's be clear here. Company decision makers are swayed by stock movements not some bad event that their decisions today might cause in 5 years time. There will always be the pressure of penny pinching. There will always be some bug in the RTOS they build on, or some incidental scratched lens on a camera that confuses the software. I believe they will accept financial liability because the bean counters have figured that it is still a profitable venture. On a criminal level, they will deny it up hill and down dale.

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