Legally, it will take awhile for most jurisdictions to catch up to the idea of driverless cars, though in the case of passenger death in the autonomous car, the

Legally, it will take awhile for most jurisdictions to catch up to the idea of driverless cars, though in the case of passenger death in the autonomous car, there will probably be some complicated legal waiver about what does and does not constitute fault in the software versus what is just an accident. More likely that naught, there will be federal regulations the US as to how the cars must behave, and states can elect whether or not to simply allow the cars, much like how there are national emissions standards.