Lawyers Say Industry Has Oversold Self-Driving Vehicles To The Public

Deadly crashes involving Tesla Inc and Uber Technologies vehicles operating entirely or in part under automated systems have made a once-abstract problem very real for auto industry lawyers gathered at a recent conference.

It is crucial that companies accurately outline limitations of automatic driving systems and the circumstances in which they can and cannot take over steering, braking and lane-keeping, attorneys for the U.S. units of carmakers including Hyundai, Toyota, Volkswagen and supplier Continental said at a recent legal conference.

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Tiberius1701A - 4/13/2018 9:44:01 AM

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Noooo!! Say it ain't so!!!

LexSucks - 4/13/2018 5:15:57 PM

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It isn't that they oversold it. It's just that the public are dummies. The public also believes that robots will take our place without realizing that without humans robots have no purpose.

TomM - 4/14/2018 7:11:04 AM

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I agree -IT IS clear from the Warnings given by the manufacturers - that is the PUBLIC that fails to read them. And that is why the lawsuits will not be as bad as some think at least initially.

Still - this is a work in process - and it will ultimately be the insurance companies that decide whether these features will ever truly reach total autonomy stage 5. I actually do not think that will happen withing MY lifetime

MDarringer - 4/13/2018 6:50:03 PM

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I hope the lawsuits are massive and crushing.