Ban cars? Ban driverless cars? They have no constitutional rights, correct? Who has liability? Why did the car kill the human?!
I will NEVER sit down in a driver less car.
By the way, did the police seize the videos from the car?
Upes!
The local municipalities could also be at fault when driverless cars kill a pedestrian.
My car has "lane assist," a feature where the car "sees" the lane stripes and nudges the car to drive between them. The system disengages if the stripes are faded from weather and age. In fact, here in Houston the roads are made from white cement with white lane stripes, so it's often hard for the car to discern the lane markings; in California my local roads were topped with dark asphalt with reflective paint striping that's clearly visible at night.
Therefore, will we be seeing self-driving cars forces states, counties, and towns to keep their lane striping fresh so that the cars' cameras see them, or can they be found liable in a crash if the lane markings on the road are faded from neglect?
-PJ
Who precisely, and based on what criteria, approved this for Phoenix or for AZ??
personal injury lawyers are going to have a field day with self-driving cars, as well they should, given the extreme likelihood of continuous death and mayhem from this not-yet-ready-for-prime-time technology.
the great thing about this from a liability lawyer’s standpoint is that almost all accidents nowadays are caused by the drivers and NOT by faulty or unsafe auto design or manufacturing. Therefore, today’s main liability targets have been the bad drivers and their insurance companies, IF THEY ARE INSURED.
With driverless cars, there’s no possibility that the drivers can be at fault since there aren’t any, and therefore there’s a 100% chance that the manufacturers are at fault, and the manufacturers have DEEP pockets, unlike individual drivers, even the ones WITH insurance.
Quite quickly, driverless car makers will be sued out of existence unless states absolve them of their liability, at which point it becomes open season on the innocents by driverless car manufactures. In point of fact, the liability waiver would actually have to occur at the Federal level because of cars sold in a state that has liability waivers driving across the border to another state that has no liability waivers.