Comments on: “Self-Driving Vehicles – How Soon and Who Will Bear the Liability Costs?”

By: Ron Miller

Ron Miller — Thu, 16 May 2013 18:56:25 +0000

Yes. this is a good idea. Let’s start hating trial lawyers for it by talking about the harm they are doing in the past tense before it actually even happens.

I like it.

By: peter

peter — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:15:54 +0000

Personal injury lawyers argue that taking manufacturers to court improves safety. Is it not somewhat ironic that a safer system will probably never be produced because everyone is running scared of liability.

Not only have Lawyers never done anything to advance the human race, they are now holding it back.

By: Hugo S. Cunningham

Hugo S. Cunningham — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:06:44 +0000

Strict liability would work if constrained by Workmen’s comp-type caps on payouts. If unlimited and speculative “punitive damages” are allowed, however, a safer form of driving is likely to be blocked.

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Thu, 09 May 2013 23:25:41 +0000

My prediction is that the question of liabilities is so fraught with the temptation to go for the deep pockets that it will never — barring alien invasion — become viable.

Like flying cars, it will always be ‘just over the horizon’.