Obviously Tesla is just trying to side-step liability for yet another potentially dangerous self-driving feature. It might even sound reasonable reading the disclaimer, but its not like regular self-driving mode where the driver is supposed to be behind the wheel, alert and ready to take over/manually override the system. At least in that situation a driver has at least the minimal training to receive a license for the activity and probably has general familiarity with potential dangers and hazards. Whereas people aren’t trained/licensed to operate their vehicles remotely from outside the vehicle. Sure it might sound dumb, because any observer can reasonably see a potential accident, except that a reasonable person outside the vehicle probably expects the Tesla to also identify the same object the observer sees and avoid it. More specifically, as in this case, the driver probably had zero clue the Tesla was unable to “see” the plane engine because why wouldn’t a Tesla be able to see an object at the same level as the vehicle (a obvious “blind spot” that I’m sure Tesla was well aware of, but didn’t exactly go out of their way to advertise/warn their car owners).
> As a society, we have not figured out who is liable in cases like this -- the owner or the car company that engineered the AI.
For the most part none of this is novel to the law.
So long as the owner didn’t do anything negligent themselves, then it seems a strong claim of product liability (defective product). It seems there is very little chance of contributory negligence of the owner with this function, unlike crashes in self-drive mode, where the driver was supposed to pay attention and maintain their hands on the wheel, but turns out they were sleeping or in the backseat live streaming.
I do think there should be legislation adopted to protect the victims by giving them a statutory private right of action against both the owner and the car manufacturer to hold them jointly and severally liable for any accident involving self driving vehicles, then in practice the owner/manufacturer (i.e. their insurance companies) to sort out liability.
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