>> The technology has to follow the legal requirements, not the other way around > I'mmmmm not entirely sure that this is The Right Way™. Initially this sounds

>> The technology has to follow the legal requirements, not the other way around > I'mmmmm not entirely sure that this is The Right Way™. Initially this sounds right but then after some thinking one can see dozens of cases where this paradigm fails. Exactly! If we develop a reliable self-driving car technology that just happens to murder 1 out of every 1 million riders, the benefits of the technology are so great and transformative that it would be a disaster to hew too closely to our current legal hangups on murder. Legal requirements are usually exist to prevent some kind of problem or abuse. Magic technology doesn't suddenly make those problems something that should be tolerated. If you want to change them, you'd better have a better reason than "I really like this tech" or "I want to make money without complying."