Liability would be determined by a court on a case by case basis. The Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill will be a good guide. Multiple manufacturers involved in a

Liability would be determined by a court on a case by case basis. The Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill will be a good guide. Multiple manufacturers involved in a difficult court battle. 1) First, you would determine which vehicle malfunctioned. If a blowout of a tire is the malfunction rather than the automated driving system only, the court would need to assign damages to A) the tire manufacturer for the blowout and B) the automation creation company for not designing a system that detects the blowout and prevents the crash... In this example, 100% of the blame may fall on the tire manufacturer if it is determined that there is no way for the automated system to do anything else. Like a near by cliff with an oncoming truck for example. Most cases should assign damages based on percent of fault. Overtime, legislators will probably set rules to make legal actions happen faster and with more efficiency. This entire process will be lengthy, expensive and challenging. But, the overall net benefit of going through the process will be driverless cars and we call all agree that the benefits of driverless cars will be amazing. Note: Google Chrome says the word "driverless" is misspelled, they should add it to their dictionary.