I wish I could give you an actual solid answer but I’m not a lawyer. My suspicion is that if Boeing could kill 346 people with their 737 MAX negligence without anyone going to jail, then
The people responsible for the self driving car software
The people in Waymo who collate the evidence for why it can go on-road
The legislators reviewing that evidence and approving it
Would have little to no legal consequences except if there is a very obvious negligence, like what happened to Uber. In this case this resulted in,
negligent homicide for the person legally driving
suspension of autonomous vehicle testing which led to shuttering the whole division
But it’s a different one as there was a driver “monitoring” the system. I don’t know how it would pan out in a driverless case to be honest.
I wish I could give you an actual solid answer but I’m not a lawyer. My suspicion is that if Boeing could kill 346 people with their 737 MAX negligence without anyone going to jail, then
Would have little to no legal consequences except if there is a very obvious negligence, like what happened to Uber. In this case this resulted in,
But it’s a different one as there was a driver “monitoring” the system. I don’t know how it would pan out in a driverless case to be honest.