Karl Auerbach on Nostr: I very much agree that self-driving things should have large, obvious, easily used ...

I very much agree that self-driving things should have large, obvious, easily used emergency stop buttons on the outside.

As you said - yes there can be abuse, but experience with elevators and fire alarms tells us that the value gained by having STOP buttons greatly outweighs the nuisance caused by false or intentionally disruptive use.

There is another thread to this - in product liability law there are situations in which the maker of a product can be held strictly liable - no negligence required - for harms that occur. (This legal development started in the 1950's with those obviously dangerous "vaporizers", pots of boiling water, that were intended to be placed near slipping children, who sometimes overturned the pot and were scalded.)

Seems like self driving vehicles - especially when fraudulently described as "full self driving" - might fall into that category of "strict liability" for harms they cause.