“Self-driving cars have an undeniable allure: Think of all the fun things you could do if you didn’t have to keep your eyes on the road! A lot of Americans feel this way; about half of us say we’d try a driverless car if we could. But behind the obvious technological challenges of getting these vehicles on the road are an array of scary-sounding legal questions we’re going to have to grapple with if we’re ever to zip around with our hands off the steering wheel.

The safety and liability implications of automation have come up in other contexts before, mainly when it comes to theorizing about armed military drones. What happens when a drone accidentally shoots a civilian? Is the person responsible the designer of the machine, the person who programmed its software, its commander or some other individual?”* Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (TYT University) and Bree Essrig (Pop Trigger) break it down.

*Read more here from Brian Fung / Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/12/when-driverless-cars-crash-whos-to-blame/