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If someone crashes into your house, do you sue the car or the person?



What if AI is controlling the car? Do you sue the passenger?


Yes, I don't get a free pass for harming somebody with a tool I'm operating just because the tool is "automatic" in some way. If the person operating the car is the passenger, then you sue them. If it's Google operating their Waymo fleet, you sue them.

Car manufacturers in the future may offer to take on the liability themselves for autopilot mistakes, but that's not yet the deal offered.

At the end of the day, there's no legal magic or loopholes. Somebody is ultimately the operator of the vehicle, even if their hands aren't on the steering wheel.


Absolutely. If my hand brake breaks while Iā€™m not in my car, the neighbor parking behind me will still sue me, not the car manufacturer.




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