this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2026
64 points (98.5% liked)
Cars - For Car Enthusiasts
5591 readers
17 users here now
About Community
c/Cars is the largest automotive enthusiast community on Lemmy and the fediverse. We're your central hub for vehicle-related discussion, industry news, reviews, projects, DIY guides, advice, stories, and more.
Rules
- Stay respectful to the community, hold civil discussions, even when others hold opinions that may differ from yours.
- This is not an NSFW community, and any such content will not be tolerated.
- Policy, not politics! Policy discussions revolve around the concept; political discussions revolve around the individual, party, association, etc. We only allow POLICY discussions and political discussions should go to c/politics.
- Must be related to cars, anything that does not have connection to cars will be considered spam/irrelevant and is subject to removal.
- Legitimate links / sources only. Posts or comments with links which serve malicious ads or contain spam content will be removed. Linking to banned domains will result in a first offense ban.
- Banned Domains: carsandhorsepower(dot)com
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
if a car using full self drive causes an accident, whose to blame? the human in the car (who wasn't driving). or Tesla?
if someone dies in the accident then who goes to prison?
Right now, the person driving the vehicle. All self driving, except for a few edge cases in Germany, requires supervision by the person sitting behind the wheel.
INB4 Tesla starts hiring sacrificial workers (mor sacrificial than their regular workers I mean) who take the blame for "FSD" failures. Job involves signing a contract, getting some money and someday, maybe soon, maybe never, facing jail for manslaughter.
legit a trolley problem.
your tesla in FSD has decided to plough into a crowd of people.
if you grab the wheel to swerve, you will hit someone on the pavement.
if you let the FSD tesla hit a crowd, tesla is responsible (in theory).
if you grab the wheel to swerve, and hit someone else, you are now responsible.
do you let a crowd die, because the tesla wanted that, and they take the blame? or do you grab the wheel to minimize the damage, but then become liable for the resulting death? even though your chose the lesser of two evils
Right now the driver has the duty of supervising constantly the system, so in no case is Tesla to blame (legally)