Well not quite. A manufacturing or maintenance defect will not be the responsibility of the pilot (unless they should have spotted it on their walkaround)

I'm not sure what comparison you're trying to make though; the grandparent said there needs to be a similar concept for cars, I said that there already was one. Are you agreeing or disagreeing that there already is one? Are you saying that, at present, the driver would not be responsible for moving into traffic if someone else had flashed their lights? Because that is certainly not true where I live.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is that in that case, due to poor training or judgement, the person driving the turning car did not consider themselves solely responsible for the safe operation of the vehicle, they let the driver in the signaling car decide if it was safe.

It's subtle, but it happens all the time, because we don't train drivers to think that way.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

In my country, we do train drivers to think that way, and then drivers stop thinking that way because they're lazy.

The difference here is not a conceptual one where drivers don't understand rationally that they're respondible for their actions, it's one of standards and levels of training.