12-20-2024, 06:50 AM
The bottom line is if you are going to design and sell a new product you must do so with the understanding that the end user is more than likely not going to read or follow the instructions.
If the product fails or does not meet expectations, people are going to want to blame the manufacturer, and often, the courts support this. If someone manages to defeat or bypass any safety feature and gets hurt, then the manufacturer must not have designed those features well enough. If you are going to call a car self-driving, then it better be self-driving. I’m not saying I agree, but that is the way it is and has been for a long time.
That’s why you see labels on packages that state not to ingest something that someone with any sense at all would not consider ingesting. Its why microwave oven doors must lock while running because just telling people it’s dangerous to your health to open them while running is not enough. I don’t see this changing.
So given the newness of electric and self-driving cars, we’ll just have to bear with these topics until the novelty wears off.
If the product fails or does not meet expectations, people are going to want to blame the manufacturer, and often, the courts support this. If someone manages to defeat or bypass any safety feature and gets hurt, then the manufacturer must not have designed those features well enough. If you are going to call a car self-driving, then it better be self-driving. I’m not saying I agree, but that is the way it is and has been for a long time.
That’s why you see labels on packages that state not to ingest something that someone with any sense at all would not consider ingesting. Its why microwave oven doors must lock while running because just telling people it’s dangerous to your health to open them while running is not enough. I don’t see this changing.
So given the newness of electric and self-driving cars, we’ll just have to bear with these topics until the novelty wears off.