>> As long as the equipment is approved by your local traffic authority and you did proper maintenance, you can prove it wasn't your fault. Which is exactly wh

>> As long as the equipment is approved by your local traffic authority and you did proper maintenance, you can prove it wasn't your fault. Which is exactly why I'm still 100% convinced this whole pipe dream will disappear the moment self-driving cars become available to consumers, and a few serious accidents happen. No car manufacturer on earth is going to continue selling cars with the promise they can 'drive themselves' if that makes them liable for accidents. Exhaustively testing a cruise control system is one thing, but ensuring at least 'nine nines' of reliability of all the hardware and software systems of a self-driving car, in every possible situation it could be used, is simply intractable. Anything less than nine nines reliability, and someone will die because of a problem with your self-driving car at least once every week or so.