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When clever code kills, who pays and who does the time? A Brit expert explains to El Reg

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"Some cars are better, some cars are less good."

Essentially I insure myself to drive. If I'm an 18 year old I have to pay more. If I accumulate a lot of bad driving history I pay more. I can't actually do anything about the first of those except grow older but I can about the second. If I buy a self-driving car then I have no input at all into the quality of its driving ability nor any way to assess it*. If the vendor sells me the vehicle as being fit for use then they should have satisfied themselves that it was and accept liability if it wasn't; that liability can and should then be covered by their public liability insurance.

*At least not as a consumer. A manufacturer buying the self-driving S/W as a component might have batter opportunities to test it.

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