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Moral Crumple Zones: Crushing the Human to Preserve Venture Capital (papers.ssrn.com)

submitted 5 months ago by blusterydayve26@midwest.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Moral Crumple Zones discusses how humans are used to absorb liability from automated systems.

With Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths getting traction, it’s time to remind everyone that Tesla’s design choice to disengage self-driving in the instant before impact is intentional to ensure the driver is in control during the moment of impact, even though self-driving disengaged way too late for the human to react.

In my opinion, they’re sacrificing both bystanders and customers to preserve immunity from liability.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

it’s time to remind everyone that Tesla’s design choice to disengage self-driving in the instant before impact is intentional to ensure the driver is in control during the moment of impact

That sounds like not only an admission of fault for the collision on Tesla's part but also deliberate fraud to me. That shouldn't protect Tesla from liability; it should increase it.