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Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica (techcrunch.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by rssbot@lemmy.bestiver.se to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Right. if you built a robot and it killed someone you would go to jail. Do you think anyone at Waymo is going to jail if their car kills someone?

[–] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

I do not sir

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That's like saying CEO of GM should go to jail for every asshole who runs over someone with his Silverado because it has a 16ft front blind spot.

Waymo is liable in civil court. The NTHSA should investigate but they got DOGEd.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you. That is the exact point I am making.

At some point criminal liability just vanishes when enough money happens. If I sell a robot that does a crime I go to jail. If me and another guy build a robot that does crimes then we are both going to jail. At some point no one goes to jail because laws just sorta don't apply to certain entities.

If a person does a crime on BEHALF of those entities, they are going to jail. But if the entity itself does a crime, well suddenly there aren't criminal penalties anymore.

Which is why we shouldn't let those entities do things like operate antonymous vehicles in the street.

[–] snowykitty@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

he should go to jail for that.