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Lawsuits Coming for AI Driverless Cars, Makers Scramble to Fend Off
Dr. Lance B. Eliot, AI Insider
Cars, can’t live without them, can’t live with them, particularly if there are onerous defects or if they are half-baked about what the co-sharing of the driving task is between humans and the AI.
As an expert witness in court cases involving computer systems, and formerly an Arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association on their Computer Disputes panel, I want to take you into the world of computer related lawsuits as they emerge in the AI and self-driving realm.
Get ready for quite a ride.
We’ll start by considering major class action lawsuits in the automotive realm, beginning with some whoppers that were not about computers but instead involved various kinds of automobile equipment and car design related defects. This lays a handy foundation for the newly emerging lawsuits that involve AI in self-driving or driverless cars.
Do you remember the famous case of the Ford Motor Company scandal over the Pinto cars that seemed to ignite on fire when struck at the back of the car where the gas tank was mounted?
That was in the 1970s and eventually involved a class action lawsuit, during which it was revealed that Ford knew about the problem but opted to do nothing since…
