In a continuation of regulation being outpaced by technology. I feel the current law doesn't properly cover this. My opinion is that, If a car manufacturer is

In a continuation of regulation being outpaced by technology. I feel the current law doesn't properly cover this. My opinion is that, If a car manufacturer is providing a service that controls the brakes and acceleration or turning of your car in an autonomous manner they should be responsible for any accidents that arise because of it. It is not responsible to expect humans that are sitting behind the wheel of a car that covers 90% of situations to pay attention for the 10%. This sort of situation puts the human at eases and gives them false confidence in a vehicle. Even if the fine print SAYS they are in control. They are adding a layer between the human and the car that delays their reaction speed a little more. Because the human is not trained to drive in a buggy ass car, they aren't trained to respond to this sort of thing. Liability for these sorts of accidents should fall on Tesla, and they should not be having their drives be guinea pigs. If a driver wants access to this autonomous mode they should have to sign a release because by default Tesla should be responsible. Again the law isn't current with this. I also want to say I love what tesla is doing but I think the bad PR of irresponsibly integrating autonomous driving when it isn't ready (or they don't have the proper sensor bank to make it work) is going to delay the acceptance of self driving cars in the public in general. Tesla's self driving car is to Googles self driving car as the Blue Origin landing was to Space X's landing . But in general people don't know or see the difference they are just cars that drive themselves or rockets that land. Also google's car is typically driven with a trained driver. I also want to say I'm a huge proponent of self driving cars.