Comment Re:Work the way down to no license (Score 1) 301
If your car hits my car I don't care if you are driving it or not, I care that someone pays for the damage done. So I think it's more than reasonable to require vehicles on the road autonomous or not to have a named entity who will be required and able to pay up in the first instance for the damage they do.
Exactly how the responsibility should be split between manufacturer and owner is more open to question. I could see an arrangement where the autonomous car has a service arrangement which includes liability cover.
Be careful what you wish for: autonomous cars are going to contain such a huge array of cameras and other sensors that they will readily be able to prove if you for one split second diverted your attention, strayed from your lane, followed too close, exceeded the speed limit, or committed any other violation (which every human driver does dozens of times on every drive) and you will be summarily lawyered to death to prove you were actually not liable.
Cameras Are Infallable, right?