Just the Tesla accident alone a couple months back should have chilled the idea right there, but it didn’t.
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Why should it chill anything when the accident rate is just as good or lower than cars without the technology?
Even if that were true, which is debatable since all the available information comes from the companies themselves, the potential liabilities are staggering. Every minor incident goes from ‘driver error’ to a major corporation being potentially responsible. And heaven forbid what will happen when one of these systems does have a catastrophic failure under real-world conditions, as the Tesla appears to have.
That doesn’t even consider Uber being held liable for endangering their passengers by not having a driver present.
The whole thing is an ambulance chasing lawyer’s dream.