This is the essence of the problem. In an accident where the vehicle or vehicles involved is/are being guided/driven by a computer, who is liable? The owner? The company that made the vehicle? The software engineers? To me, the legal complexities of this question are reasons why automatically guided vehicles will never hit the roads, well not until artificial entities are recognised as individuals and can be held liable.
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This is the essence of the problem. In an accident where the vehicle or vehicles involved is/are being guided/driven by a computer, who is liable? The owner? The company that made the vehicle? The software engineers? To me, the legal complexities of this question are reasons why automatically guided vehicles will never hit the roads, well not until artificial entities are recognised as individuals and can be held liable.