lines]]An accident or mishap is an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance, often with lack of intention or necessity. It usually implies a generally negative outcome which may have been avoided or prevented had circumstances leading up to the accident been recognized, and acted upon, prior to its occurrence.
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Autonomous vehicle makers should be held responsible for accidents, says Law Commission
Autonomous cars aren't really regulated right now. The UK's Law Commission is proposing some laws, but they need to be more ...
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Recap: Who’s responsible if a self-driving car has an accident?
With self-driving cars gaining traction in today’s automobile landscape, the issue of legal liability in the case of an ...
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Despite hundreds of deaths a year, US trucks still aren’t required to have automatic emergency braking
An IIHS study found that 40% of rear-end truck incidents could be avoided if the vehicles were fitted with automatic emergency ...
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5 reasons why autonomous cars still aren’t on our roads
Elon Musk thinks his company Tesla will have fully autonomous cars ready by the end of 2020. “There are no fundamental ...
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The UK takes its first step towards regulating autonomous vehicle tech
The UK's new autonomous vehicle regulations could recognize cars equipped with lane keeping systems as autonomous and put ...
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Autonomous cars won’t prevent as many accidents as we’ve been told, study says
Humans are responsible for most road traffic accidents. The switch to autonomous cars is often hailed to dramatically reduce ...
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UK cities trial ‘red carpet’ crosswalks to reduce pedestrian accidents
This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, ...
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Accidental Tesla ‘butt dial’ upgrade highlights confusing future of car maintenance
Earlier this week, author Nassim Nicolas Taleb, tweeted about his interactions with Tesla after he accidentally upgraded ...
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Another Tesla crashes due to misuse of Autopilot [Updated]
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) today revealed that faulty software and human error were to blame for ...
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AIs should be legally liable for their mistakes soon
Assigning blame can often be a complex task. A person’s actions, intentions, and state of mind all come into consideration ...
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Boeing 737 MAX’s crashes explained by an aircraft expert
The Boeing 737 is the most produced commercial airplane in history: over 10,000 have been built since it first flew in 1967, ...
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Uber's off the hook for its self-driving car's fatal accident — but what about human drivers?
Uber is no longer being blamed for the fatal accident its self-driving test car caused - but the human driver behind the ...
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How driverless cars choose who to kill is an ethical dilemma
Slowly but surely, work on self-driving cars is progressing. Crashes still happen, tragic accidents come to pass every once ...
