https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2023/08/31/outcome-of-self-driving-vehicle-suits-may-hinge-on-innovators-risk-management-strategies/

ANALYSIS
“Legal reality is likely to be less accepting of driver responsibility than the car manufacturers might hope,” said Cassandra Burke Robertson, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University.
August 31, 2023 at 10:11 AM
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What You Need to Know
- Tesla goes to trial next month over a fatal Autopilot crash, with similar cases likely to follow against other developers of self-driving technologies.
- Companies with documentation they gave deep thought to safety every step of the development process will be in a stronger position to win over juries.
- Conversely, companies that seemed to give risks short shrift could anger juries and get hit with big judgments.
Tesla goes to trial next month over allegations its semi-autonomous Autopilot feature sent a Model 3 careening into a tree in 2019, killing its driver and injuring two passengers.
But it won’t just be this nascent “self-driving” technology that’s on trial.
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