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"I believe Elon is stating that the liability may land on the car owner’s insurance" There is never liability on insurance. Insurance is just a method of paym

• jmpman 7y ago
  Maybe I don’t understand your point on “never liability on insurance”, but I have automobile liability insurance. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/automobile-liability-insurance.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/automobile-liability-in... If your point is that someone is going to die by these autonomous cars, and someone should be jailed for it... that’s another discussion. In theory you’d want society to say that if the autonomous cars kill fewer people than a human driver would, then... oops for the autonomous car. In reality, it’s going to be an absolute cluster of lawyers trying to convince jurys that yet another corner case was so simple that the autonomous car shouldn’t have run over that 3 year old running after a ball in the fog (and if Tesla had only used a certain type of lidar, this poor child would still be alive) Yes, legal frameworks/limitations will need to be established to keep every run over child from demanding a multi billion dollar settlement. Yes, it’s going to be dirty on both sides. I personally don’t believe Tesla’s “autonomous cars are 2x safer than human driven cars” sound bite spewed by Elon. I believe that for the primarily highway miles driven autonomously by Tesla, an equivalent unimpaired human driver on the same roads is an order (or many more) of magnitude safer, but Tesla is likely comparing against all drivers for all miles driven.