Their families have separately filed civil lawsuits against Aziz Riad and Tesla that are ongoing.
HerrBeter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Tesla has to get more punishment than NOTHING. This sucks
AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
stevestevesteve@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Suing Tesla seems a little dumb to me. Sue the DMV that’s giving people like this licenses
HerrBeter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Auto manufacturers must be held liable for faulty software. If it’s not safe, it does not go on the road
RushingSquirrel@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Only if the software is causing the accident or preventing the driver from avoiding one. Here the fault of the software was to not slow down out of the highway (which by experience must be a very specific situation because it most certainly do), the drive could have disengage autopilot or applied brakes to stop at the red light. The software specifically mentions it can’t stop at red lights and alerts the driver when it’s about to burn one. 100% of fault is the driver here.
AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Are manufacturers solely responsible for safety, or lack thereof, on the public roads of the USA?
I don’t believe they are.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 9 months ago
HerrBeter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Your point being?
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They are legally protected from the punishment of more than anything. Nothing will ever hit them with more than NOTHING.
HerrBeter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Then the law has failed, which was my point from the start.
Why would you try to belittle me by repeating my opinion? That doesn’t make sense at all.
jonne@infosec.pub 9 months ago
Yeah, judging by the article, Tesla should take some responsibility here. Not that the driver should get off, if your car is blowing a red light at 120km/h you’re just not paying proper attention.
HerrBeter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sure, I’d prefer to know more exactly the time between. Was it 2 seconds or 25? But my premise is this shouldn’t happen in the software. I know I read some time ago that Teslas had shut off the software moments before collision, no time to save it, but I’d have to double check that. All to blame the customer
Automakers should not be allowed to use the unsuspecting public as toys for their experimental software, it quickly becomes a 1-4 ton death machine, but I think we agree on that.
jonne@infosec.pub 9 months ago
Oh yeah, I work in software development myself. No way I’d trust my life to something like Tesla’s autopilot, which is perpetually in beta, relies on just the camera feed and is basically run by a manager that has clear issues with over promising and under delivering (among other things). You can get away with shit like that for a website or mobile app, but these are people’s lives.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sounds like a convenient excuse by the driver who ran a red light.