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It's the law and courts that let them get away with it, not EULA.
by EUROCARE 4y ago
It's the law and courts that let them get away with it, not EULA.
- amelius 4y agoWell, as a company you can choose to do the right thing, or you can choose to weasel your way out of uncomfortable situations using lawyers and the fact that the law is always lagging behind technological development.
- EUROCARE 4y agoMusk has been talking about self driving cars for over a decade. Law has had enough time to catch up.
- amelius 4y agoThat is not the user's fault.
- EUROCARE 4y agoNo, but it is the government's.
- amelius 4y agoExploiting the sloppiness of the government and using it against the user is not what I would call good behavior.
- EUROCARE 4y agoStill, the situation at hand is primarily fault of the government - which should've taken care of it at the very least 5 years ago, or sooner. It isn't a problem exclusive to Tesla, Mercedes has a very similar feature called Drive Pilot (introduced in 2013 IIRC) and except for the most recent model year a malfunction is a problem of the user just like with Teslas. BTW this isn't even about any lawyers and EULAs, there's simply no legal way how a company like Tesla or Mercedes could take responsibility for a crash, so IMHO Tesla is at least nice enough to spell it out, unlike Mercedes.
- amelius 4y ago> there's simply no legal way how a company like Tesla or Mercedes could take responsibility for a crash This seems unlikely to be true, unless of course they weaseled themselves in this position.
- EUROCARE 4y agoRead through the laws about deciding blame in car crashes. There isn't a single word about transferring blame to the manufacturer, and thus it's not possible - and the law specifically says that the driver has responsibility. Nobody had to specifically weasel themselves into it, just the states kept sleeping a decade too long.
- amelius 4y agoI'm not going to read through law texts, but I'm sure that there are provisions for the case where the manufacturer made a design error and is responsible for a crash.
- EUROCARE 4y agoThis isn't the case though, the car works as advertised and licensed, the problem here is that the law makes the driver responsible for something they shouldn't be.