<story><title>The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car</title><url>https://medium.com/backchannel/the-view-from-the-front-seat-of-the-google-self-driving-car-46fc9f3e6088</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EvanKelly</author><text>Is &amp;quot;autocar&amp;quot; a thing?&lt;p&gt;The ambiguity between automatic&amp;#x2F;automobile&amp;#x2F;autonomous really makes me hope a better word surfaces.&lt;p&gt;Self-driving car is a bit too long.</text></item><item><author>ender7</author><text>Keep in mind that every autocar will have an extremely accurate recording of the accident that can be analyzed and played back during a hearing. Determining fault will be trivial in almost all cases.</text></item><item><author>cyphunk</author><text>Imagine that for a moment: Self driving car companies could promise to pay all accident expenses provided it was on auto drive at the time of accident.&lt;p&gt;Not only is that a marketing win, potentially reducing accidents and saving costs for owners... if you jump forward many years of Google (or other) defending owners in court you would reach a point even judges would be biased to believe that the auto-driven car could not have caused an accident, further disadvantaging non-auto cars in the market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dclowd9901</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve always been partial to &amp;quot;robocar&amp;quot;. It has a nice tinge of dystopia to it.</text></comment>
<story><title>The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car</title><url>https://medium.com/backchannel/the-view-from-the-front-seat-of-the-google-self-driving-car-46fc9f3e6088</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EvanKelly</author><text>Is &amp;quot;autocar&amp;quot; a thing?&lt;p&gt;The ambiguity between automatic&amp;#x2F;automobile&amp;#x2F;autonomous really makes me hope a better word surfaces.&lt;p&gt;Self-driving car is a bit too long.</text></item><item><author>ender7</author><text>Keep in mind that every autocar will have an extremely accurate recording of the accident that can be analyzed and played back during a hearing. Determining fault will be trivial in almost all cases.</text></item><item><author>cyphunk</author><text>Imagine that for a moment: Self driving car companies could promise to pay all accident expenses provided it was on auto drive at the time of accident.&lt;p&gt;Not only is that a marketing win, potentially reducing accidents and saving costs for owners... if you jump forward many years of Google (or other) defending owners in court you would reach a point even judges would be biased to believe that the auto-driven car could not have caused an accident, further disadvantaging non-auto cars in the market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fixermark</author><text>&amp;quot;autoautomobile&amp;quot; ;)</text></comment>