The 35,000 deaths per year on US roads is mostly due to drunk and distracted (phones) driving. Congress is looking at this technology to radically reduce this statistic.
The machines have fail-over and fail-safe modes via redundant systems. It’s actually quite easy to get a car to “not hit something” with just a few sensors. You’re seeing the beginnings of this with Advanced Driver Assist Systems which can stop you automatically, keep you in your lane, or brake when reversing due to cross-traffic (or people).
This stuff is coming...
Solutions don’t come from Congress. They are the problem.
The negative impact for tens of thousands of attorney will be devastating. Thousands of firms which have become rich doing nothing but auto collision personal injury stuff. It will trickle down to body shops, auto painters, courts, cops, tow trucks drivers, insurance adjusters and on and on.