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Re: What does everyone think ? Are the cars unethical?
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Originally Posted by JohnFogarty
How does my statement reflect anything to do with personal ownership of the autonomous vehicle?
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I apologize if I mis-interpreted your post. I assumed this was the case because it was apparent you were implying determining the best possible insurance policy would be a harder than obvious task with many factors to consider.
The insurance aspect of an autonomous car depends on the model employed, and under most models they really don't differ much then say how a taxi company insures all of its cars or how an airline is insured. There are some models that do.
The only reason I could deduce you were implying this was a hard task was the possible assumption that people still owned the vehicles. If this is not the case, I apologize. If people do not own the vehicles, then the model gets really simple, takes form of similar insurance models already instantiated today by other industries and it is not a hard task at all. If people do own the vehicles, then there're many more models which suggest how to handle this, and a lot more scenarios.
The point I was trying to make is as people think of questions with regards to this technology, it is impossible to change one variable assuming everything else they currently understand about our driving model today stays the same.
When autonomous cars are employed, every aspect of our driving model today will need to be modified as well.
Regards,
Kevin
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