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Delivery Robot Causes Car Accident With Nine Injuries: "The robot fled, if you can put it that way." (futurism.com)
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[–] 47 points 2 days ago (10 children)

As the spokesperson put it, the robot’s actions may legally constitute fleeing the scene of a traffic incident, meaning Starship Technologies could very well be on the hook for the incident.

I don't understand. It darted into a moving bus regardless, even if it hadn't fled. The bus sure as hell isn't responsible................................

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  • [–] 14 points 2 days ago* (3 children)

    Yes, the real issue is that it disobeyed a Don't Walk signal, which is clearly a defect for a robot allowed on public streets. People saying it "fled the scene" are just making noise.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    "The fault lies with one of our subcontractors, one of the janitors is to blame, send him to prison. Anyway, we will keep doing business as we are a corporation and therefore a person and therefore none of us who own the company are at fault whatsoever."

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  • [–] -2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    There was no actual collision

    The injuries were from hitting the brakes. I've certainly has to brake for people and animals in the roadway before, never considered it an incident. Guess it's different because there were injuries in the bus, which I wouldn't have expected from just braking

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago

    Guess it’s different because there were injuries in the bus, which I wouldn’t have expected from just braking

    I would have. When you slam on your brakes what happens? You go forward in your seat. In your car you're restricted to how far you go by the seatbelt which locks to prevent you going too far. People travelling in buses tend to not wear seatbelts so they'd have flown forward and directly in front of their faces would be the metal bars of the row of seats in front.

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