Liability and Risk in Programming Autonomous Vehicles - CPO Magazine

Many readers will remember the Knight Industries Two Thousand (or KITT) from the 1980s – the fascinating self-aware car driven by the Knight Rider – the Hoff. That car was programmed using sophisticated Artificial Intelligence and machine learning. The best science fiction (and it was science fiction in the 1980s) should become science fact shortly afterwards. It is that time because autonomous vehicles are shortly to storm the world stage. We are about to undergo a paradigm shift from passive response-based systems in cars (such as cruise control, lane-change warning alarms, obstacle alarms and so on) to fully active systems.