<story><title>Cruise (GM) receives permit for fully driverless cars</title><url>https://medium.com/cruise/its-time-to-drive-change-f447f27cb353</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>I think the upside of this is that if you get hit by a self-driving car, due to the way the media behaves around self-driving accidents, you can be almost sure that they will deal with it professionally and pay off all damages if it&amp;#x27;s even remotely their fault.&lt;p&gt;They might not leave a note on your windshield but they would surely acknowledge the accident and as a company, would have to cooperate with any investigations. It&amp;#x27;s not some random dude that if they hit and run off you will never see them again.</text></item><item><author>slg</author><text>I wonder what happens when these cars get in an accident.  I don&amp;#x27;t even mean in the legal sense.  What happens in the immediate wake of an accident?  Is there a note on the car about what the other driver should do?  Is there a way for someone back in the office to communicate to the other driver on the scene?  Does the other driver need to wait around until some human shows up?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeroenhd</author><text>&amp;gt;  I think the upside of this is that if you get hit by a self-driving car, due to the way the media behaves around self-driving accidents, you can be almost sure that they will deal with it professionally and pay off all damages if it&amp;#x27;s even remotely their fault.&lt;p&gt;Tesla and Uber have shown that this is not the case. Tesla tries to throw the driver under the bus or, if that fails, the victim, and Uber has acted especially despicably after their fatal crash.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps &amp;quot;traditional&amp;quot; car manufacturers with less of a cult behind them will take the PR route, but the behaviour of current companies involved in self-driving vehicles isn&amp;#x27;t very encouraging.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cruise (GM) receives permit for fully driverless cars</title><url>https://medium.com/cruise/its-time-to-drive-change-f447f27cb353</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dheera</author><text>I think the upside of this is that if you get hit by a self-driving car, due to the way the media behaves around self-driving accidents, you can be almost sure that they will deal with it professionally and pay off all damages if it&amp;#x27;s even remotely their fault.&lt;p&gt;They might not leave a note on your windshield but they would surely acknowledge the accident and as a company, would have to cooperate with any investigations. It&amp;#x27;s not some random dude that if they hit and run off you will never see them again.</text></item><item><author>slg</author><text>I wonder what happens when these cars get in an accident.  I don&amp;#x27;t even mean in the legal sense.  What happens in the immediate wake of an accident?  Is there a note on the car about what the other driver should do?  Is there a way for someone back in the office to communicate to the other driver on the scene?  Does the other driver need to wait around until some human shows up?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staticassertion</author><text>Wouldn&amp;#x27;t they, as a company, be incentivized to fight desperately to avoid potentially setting a costly precendent?</text></comment>