Trial Lawyers Lobby Against Autonomous Vehicles

rayiner

A major use of AI that would save the economy hundreds of billions of dollars, if not a trillion plus, would be to streamline routine medical malpractice and personal injury cases by taking them out of the court system. I suspect there would be a lot less unnecessary treatment if a doctor's conduct could be measured against a specially trained AI, instead of allowing these cases to go to trial with hand-picked experts telling the jury how the doctor could've avoided the problem with more tests.

milkytron

So, if trial lawyers are have reduced demand, I wonder how that impacts the billboard market. On a more serious note, I think it's obvious that we shouldn't reduce safety improvements to help an industry that profits off of lower safety standards.