UK could make carmakers, not drivers, responsible for self-driving errors
CNN
Britain should pass a law regulating self-driving vehicles and include sanctions for companies if anything goes wrong when their vehicles take over control from human drivers, two independent governmental bodies said on Wednesday in a report.
The report by the Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission recommended introducing an "Automated Vehicles Act" and drawing "a clear distinction between features which just assist drivers, such as adaptive cruise control, and those that are self-driving."
Governments around the world are wrestling with how to regulate self-driving vehicle technology and the thorny topic of accident liability.
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