Driverless car problems are outpacing liability laws
For years, lawyers and scholars have been speculating about what would happen when a fully self-driving car – one tooling around with no human being in the front seat – seriously injured someone. After a robotaxi by General Motors’ Cruise unit hit and dragged a pedestrian earlier this fall in San Francisco, that future is now. But is our legal system ready to offer just resolution of auto injury claims when one or both of the parties is a robot?