There may come a day where someone is truly the passenger in the driver's seat in a car, like a person riding a bus. Today is not that day. Nor is it next year

There may come a day where someone is truly the passenger in the driver's seat in a car, like a person riding a bus. Today is not that day. Nor is it next year. Or this decade. A whole lot of people are going to die this decade, both drivers and victims hit, because marketing wants people to believe you don't have to pay attention once you turn it on rather it's an assist, not a replacement, for the driver. It's not autopilot right now. It's driver assist. As long as the driver exists, the driver is responsible. In an "old school" car, if an accelerator gets stuck and you mow someone down, then they find spaghetti code in the accelerator or it mechanically got stuck from design failure, you still have liability for killing someone but your prosecution won't be the same as someone who purposely drove over someone they were angry with.