"So Google is going to be liable for every accident that is caused by its self-driving cars. How much money has Google to pay all the damages, medical expenses

"So Google is going to be liable for every accident that is caused by its self-driving cars. How much money has Google to pay all the damages, medical expenses and lives of people? Can any amount money be able to pay for people’s lives? Nope." I'm not sure why the author says this. Real juries do award damages in finite dollar amounts to address the loss of human lives. Human lives are negotiated into dollar amounts by large corporations too. When someone dies in an accident at Disneyland the corporate lawyers usually negotiate a private dollar amount settlement with the victim's family. And look at the history of the the Ford Pinto. Ford Motor Company was blamed for car-explosion related deaths, but the company survived the lawsuits and settlements. Ford is still profitably making cars today. Also, if accident rates are brought low enough -- so low that human drivers are considered more risky than computer drivers -- independent insurance companies will offer affordable policies to car owners. In this way, the liability will be spread away from Google to large insurance pools. And consider how the legal environment will evolve to make self-driven cars acceptable as part of an overall reasonable risk-for-productivity trade off. If millions of hours of productive time are given back to drivers who are currently stuck in several hours of traffic every day, society might well accept a few hundred deaths a year as a reasonable price to pay for that convenience and productivity gain. Finally, if more lives are saved by eliminating drunk human drivers than are destroyed by accidents caused by computer-driven cars, the law might actually start to favor such cars.