No, that's stupid. There's no need to mention or refer to the "self-driving" feature of cars in the legal wording AT ALL.

Liability lies with the handler of the vehicle (e.g. the person in control of and responsible for the car - whether you are controlling it directly with wheels and pedals, or controlling it through voice and a touch screen is utterly irrelevant)

If you are responsible for the vehicle, you are liable in the event of an accident

If the "auto-drive" (or any other feature at all) of the car was at fault, then you are welcome to sue the manufacturer (just like you can now, duh)

We're not in any danger of transgressing that one yet :(

First we should try to create a human mind with the likeness of intelligence, then go from there.

Exactly! Finally someone halfway-intelligent!

If you ban me from using "AI" to steal your work - I'm just going to pay an army of povs from a third world backwater to do it for me instead - and it'll probably be cheaper in the long run, with no licensing fees & shit

Trying to legislate specific technologies is, and always will be, doomed to failure.

Any law that applies to specific technology, only serves to WEAKEN your legislation by creating loopholes people can take advantage of.

Oh? We're not allowed to use AI to create derivative art? Well, we didn't use AI , we crowd sourced it to the third world on the cloud!

Legislate the USAGE independent of any specific technology, and then there's no loop holes.

Stop recommending BAD laws :(

And apparently sarcasm is lost on you, Dr. Oblivious.

Local journalism (hell journalism of any kind) was destroyed by the declining quality of the journalists themselves.

Journalists have only themselves to blame.

(emphasis mine)

Colour me shocked.

Fine by me. I have no interest in inapplicable historical concepts, I'll stick with the "that's how it is now" ones, thx.

No I'm not.

It hasn't "taken root" - it's the foundational principle of capitalism itself - expand or die.

Trying to convince *any* MBA of anything other than their own personal awesomeness or the divinity of Adam Smith is like talking to a brick wall