Certainly, humans will never be perfect but there is the wicked problem of how we interact with systems that behave correctly 99% of the time but require human

Certainly, humans will never be perfect but there is the wicked problem of how we interact with systems that behave correctly 99% of the time but require human attention the other 1%. There was an excellent Econ Talk podcast about this topic a while ago: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/11/david_mindell_o.html http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/11/david_mindell_o.htm... However, in my opinion, the driver and by extension his employer Uber must be held responsible in this case. Uber have a license to test their self-driving cars only if there is a human driver in control at all times. Regardless of the crazy things their software decides to do, the human is there as a person of ultimate legal liability.