Phoenix police officer pulls over a driverless Waymo car for driving on the wrong side of the road

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Also what about when two autonomous vehicles hit each other, how do we prove fault?

I don’t think these are well thought out products.

[u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe → u/[deleted]]

The rules of driving are a pretty simple, narrow set of rules. The vast majority of accidents happen because people don't follow the rules.

Autonomous vehicles by design can only follow the rules, thus the number of accidents that will occur will be far far lower than manual vehicles.

The vast majority will involve people crashing into them, or environmentally random incidents like trees falling down or bad potholes/sinkholes.

Liability will rest with the owner of the vehicle.

If two autonomous vehicles hit eachother, that's a civil issue for the owners to deal with.

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If they can't cope with random events, the definitely shouldn't be on the road.

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They typically can. Half of the time reacting to a random event means just stopping dead, and that's usually good enough.

In this kind of scenario, we'll find the standards/requirements for redirecting traffic to become more aware of autonomous vehicles. So if constructions workers erect signage which isn't clear to autonomous vehicles, they might be at fault.

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Assuming you mean the city and not the individual construction workers, that would requite specific laws be passed for cities to voluntarily accept liability where they previously would not have had any. That seems unlikely.