Given the average driver's intelligence, skill and attention span, self driving cars will have markedly lower incidents than human driven cars.
Problem is, now the liability for every accident and injury would end up residing with the manufacturer or some subsidiary, even if every buyer had to sign a notarized release at the time of purchase.
It will be a mess if it ever comes to fruition. Heck, the owners of self driving cars and the mfgs will also be getting sued left and right by people driving human driven cars. "That self driven car stopped, accelerated, turned, avoided ____ so quickly I couldn't react in time!"
Here's your paycheck you leech, next in line?
Heck, I turned off the active collision avoidance in the wifes new car for that reason. Yes it could save rear ending someone, no doubt, but (it's also not an average car 6 piston and 4 piston Brembos do a real quick job of stopping it) in the first few months of ownership, it "sensed" an obstacle but didn't "sense" what the driver (me or the wife) were thinking or doing and dropped the hammer on the brakes at really in opportune moments. The only reason 2 of the instances didn't result in us getting rear ended was because the drivers behind us were lolly gaggin in traffic and actually leaving too much following distance, thankfully.
It was good for getting flipped off and threatened, rightfully so, by someone who though you brake checked them hard when they weren't even tailgating.
2016 Ram 2500, MotorOps.ca EFIlive tuned, 5” turbo back, 6" lift on 37s
2017 Heartland Torque T29 - Sold.
Couple of Arctic Fox TCs - Sold
