• UnspecificGravity@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    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?

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      2 days ago

      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.

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        2 days 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.