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March 20, 2018 05:52 pm PDT
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The future legal shenanigans that will shift liability for pedestrian fatalities involving self-driving Ubers
This week, a self-driving Uber killed a pedestrian in Arizona, the first pedestrian fatality involving an autonomous vehicle; in his analysis of the event, Charlie Stross notes that Arizona's laws treat corporations that kill people with considerably more forbearance than humans who do so, and proposes that in the near future, every self-driving car will be owned by a special-purpose corporation that insulates its owner from liability. (more…)
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