{"id":33907,"date":"2017-01-28T19:04:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T03:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/whos-responsible-if-an-open-source-software-powered-self-driving-vehicle-kills-someone"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:49:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:49:45","slug":"whos-responsible-if-an-open-source-software-powered-self-driving-vehicle-kills-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/whos-responsible-if-an-open-source-software-powered-self-driving-vehicle-kills-someone","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Responsible If An Open Source Software Powered Self-Driving Vehicle Kills Someone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whos-responsible-if-an-open-source-software-powered-self-driving-vehicle-kills-someone.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who is responsible if a <a href=\"http:\/\/hothardware.com\/tags\/self-driving-car\">self-driving car<\/a> crashes and causes property damages, physical harm or even death? Autonomous vehicle legislation is still very much in its infancy though it will certainly be an evolutionary process over the years. Corporations such as <a href=\"http:\/\/hothardware.com\/tags\/tesla\">Tesla<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hothardware.com\/tags\/volvo\">Volvo<\/a> have publicly stated that they will take responsibility for any faults in their software. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/Comma.ai\">Comma.ai<\/a>\u2019s CEO <i>George Hotz<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/hothardware.com\/tags\/geohot\">geohot<\/a>) has stated that he is <i>not<\/i> responsible for any accidents caused by those who <a href=\"http:\/\/hothardware.com\/news\/geohot-makes-his-autonomous-driving-tech-open-source\">download his free self-driving vehicle software<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/hothardware.com\/news\/whos-responsible-if-an-open-source-software-powered-self-driving-vehicle-kills-someone\">http:\/\/hothardware.com\/news\/whos-responsible-if-an-open-sour...ls-someone<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is responsible if a self-driving car crashes and causes property damages, physical harm or even death? Autonomous vehicle legislation is still very much in its infancy though it will certainly be an evolutionary process over the years. Corporations such as Tesla and Volvo have publicly stated that they will take responsibility for any faults [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65269,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33907\/revisions\/65269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}