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The owner of the vehicle would be responsible. Just like any other industrial accident. If you get killed by a garbage compactor that runs on a timer, the machine owner has to deal with that.


>The owner of the vehicle would be responsible.

I think you're misinformed.

Why should I be? I've been informed, by you, that it's a better driver than me, and I have no control over the software.

Let me say, these are not insurmountable problems, by any means. But the government moves slowly.


If I buy a self driving car now, can I buy insurance for it? I doubt it. Maybe the developers of self driving cars should fund such an insurance.


Tesla is planning on selling insurance and I'm guessing it is to cover their self driving features [0].

[0]: https://electrek.co/2019/05/02/details-of-teslas-new-insuran...




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