We have seen time and time again that if corporations can wash their hands off of something, they do so. For the past few decades, and perhaps for much longer,

We have seen time and time again that if corporations can wash their hands off of something, they do so. For the past few decades, and perhaps for much longer, the operating principle of corporations have been "if it's not illegal, it's moral." As an example, rationally speaking credit bureaus and financial institutions are 100% responsible if they give someone a loan or open an account for them under your name. But they were allowed by the legal system to put the onus on the victims of the fraud to prove they are victims not perpetrators of it, and they called it "identity theft" instead of "bank fraud," and now we have victims who never did anything wrong or could have done anything differently battling CRAs and FIs for years to get out of a situation they should have never been put into in the first place [0][1]. If the laws allow companies to sell Level 5 autonomous vehicle while keeping the passenger (because it's not really a driver anymore) responsible for all legal matters, they would do so, and they would lobby against any law which puts the burden correctly where it belongs. And we would be forced to put our financial, mental, and legal well-being on the line just to get from point A to point B because it will be impossible to avoid autonomous tech then like it is impossible to avoid credit bureaus now. [0] Like this case: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/credit-report-error-fraud-walmart-equifax-transunion-1.3864593 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/credit-report-error-f... [1] Obligatory Mitchell and Webb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c57WKxeELY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c57WKxeELY