Mikah Sargent wondered whether automakers would build self-driving systems carefully if they weren't liable for crashes. Abuelsamid says product liability and regulation give them an incentive anyway. He had noted that Tesla labels its system "supervised" and doesn't take responsibility when it's engaged.
…supervised. They will not, they have not said, they are not taking responsibility for their system for consumer vehicles. So if you are driving a Tesla and you put it into full self-driving mode, you engage full self-driving, if something happens, if there's a crash, you are responsible, not Tesla.
…I'm saying, I wish that I now I have to believe that they would not be as motivated to do it right if they weren't liable. But I would want in a perfect world for them to be as motivated, even if it wasn't them being responsible for crashes in the end. That's that was more my concern. Yeah, no,
and you're right. I mean, ideally, you know, that would be the case. And I think, you know, for most companies, you know, they prefer for their customers not to get killed. You know, they, you know, makes it hard to have repeat customers when they keep dying on you. So although, you know, that didn't work out so well for the, I mean, for the tobacco industry, that didn't seem to matter. But automakers certainly, you know, prefer to have their customers come back and buy another vehicle in a few years. And so, you know, between product liability laws and regulations, you know, there is an incentive for them to try to do this as safely as possible.
Yeah, there is an analogy to this, which was in the, strangely, in the aircraft industry, which is that for a long time, airline manufacturers had essentially unlimited eternal liability for issues with planes. And this came up in many, many lawsuits. And it also didn't matter if the plane often…
Yeah, something that occurs to me, and sorry, this is a little bit of a tangent, but kind of going on the cars made for humans being driven by robots moment is, I think there's a weird parallel in, I've been testing some of the AI agents, you know, like your Muse and all those. And it's, it's just…
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