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Nov 29, 2022Liked by Sarah Reynolds

When you make a mistake behind the wheel of your death machine, you're liable. Small mistake, it's inconvenient and a bit embarrassing and your insurance premiums go up. Big mistake, somebody's dead or lost a limb and maybe you don't have a license anymore.

When your death machine makes *its own mistake*, who's liable? The manufacturer, of course. Just ask Ralph Nader. So that cost becomes concentrated, rather than spread out. Can the manufacturer absorb all that risk? How much safer does the software have to be, for this actuarial exposure to pencil out?

When there's some ambiguity about whether a luckless individual or some faceless but well-heeled corporation's machine is at fault, who do you suppose the juries will side with?

I think your gruesome prediction is unlikely to come true, unless the technocrats can change this calculus of liability. Seems like an uphill battle to me. Go ahead, call me a pollyanna.

Nice story, by the way.

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Nov 29, 2022Liked by Sarah Reynolds

I'm one of those "loves to drive" people. Better yet, I love stick shifts. --- LOVE, Love, love, "snrain." 😂🤣 We call it sleet, sometimes just, "ice." But, no matter what you call it, it can definitely make things "interesting," driving to work before dawn praying you can see through the windows, and praying you won't just slide off the road going 5 MPH.

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I think God likes you.

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I’m glad new cars are being equipped with more and more electronic driver aids.

I believe they may one day prevent some idiot from killing me while I’m riding my Harley.

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