Using cameras and a vehicle’s black box data, the jury decided if a fatality was the fault of a vehicle’s AI or the Passenger. If it was the former, manufacturers and insurers jointly faced compensation claims. Adequate and costly software reprogramming would also be necessary to ensure the error was not repeated. But Libby knew how rarely the inquests blamed AI, a system seen as virtually infallible. She had read about angry, bereaved families protesting the jury’s unjust verdicts placing the cause of a fatal accident squarely upon their loved ones. Those related to the dead had no right to
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