I lilke the concept, but suspect it won't ever happen because the increased liability is too high. If the self-driving tries, and it worsens the impact somehow

I lilke the concept, but suspect it won't ever happen because the increased liability is too high. If the self-driving tries, and it worsens the impact somehow, bigger lawsuit. If the self-driving fails to do so, bigger lawsuit. And it might sound "insane" that a best attempt could result in worse liability than no attempt, but unfortunately there is a lot of legal precedent to back up the idea. PS - Although legislation could make self-driving manufacturers immune from increased liability for these "best effort" systems.