If they are really safer than human driven vehicles, then it will likely cost less to insure them than human driven vehicles. And as a higher percentage of vehi

If they are really safer than human driven vehicles, then it will likely cost less to insure them than human driven vehicles. And as a higher percentage of vehicles become autonomous, the roads as a whole should get safer (assuming self driving cars are actually safer) and that will also lower insurance costs. As for liability, there is already generally strict liability when products malfunction. If the product didn't malfunction, then that would mean someone else was at fault, and the cases where there was no malfunction and no one else at fault should be rare. Regardless, there's a huge body of law out there regarding product liability. Once again, I'm assuming that autonomous vehicles deliver on the safety promises. If they become as safe as a lot of people think they can be, there will be so many fewer accidents that I don't think insurance and liability will be as big of an issue as they are now for human driven vehicles.