• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    Did this car have autonomy for it to crash into a group of people, or did a driver do the murdering?

    Headlines really need to convey who’s responsible.

    The car didn’t crash into a group of bikes. A car driver crashed into a group of people riding bikes.

    • psud@aussie.zone
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      13 days ago

      In Australia the driver is always responsible. We have no cars allowed to self drive, though we do have cars with a lot of autonomy.

      Also autonomy systems are better at emergency braking than human drivers, the fact the car hit a tree hard enough to leak petrol suggests there was no braking at all