where Andreas' is bringing the example of what will happen if you combine self driving cars, Uber and Bitcoin.The result is a self owning car. A car that pays for it's leas, gas by giving people a ride.A car that is a corporation and owned by itself.
It's interesting that you express it the way you did. Corporation as a concept is basically creating a business entity that can exhibit certain legal rights of humans. The word corporation literally means that; the representation of a bodily form (derived from "corpse" and "corpus", e.g. habeus corpus).
It's weird when you apply that word (corporation) to businesses, because it's nakedly what it's designed to do; to confer to the (entirely abstract) business entity sole legal responsibility for the actions of it's executives. So it doesn't make much sense, except as a useful metaphor to enable various forms of legalised immoral actions (the regulator send a bill to the offender, who just so happens to not even be a real person, but also "who" has lots of money to pay fines, but can never be imprisoned). So it's even weirder that these miniature corporations on wheels do actually possess a physical (corporeal?) form, and yet it makes more literal sense than the way the idea was originally conceived.
Who's responsible when an automated Uber cab eats it's passenger, if the Uber cab AI dev team are designing the new vehicles?
