Comment by kube-system
Comment by kube-system 21 hours ago
No, Tesla doesn’t assign you liability by making you sign something. The law makes the driver of a vehicle liable for the operation, as it always has.
My first sentence was to say that even if the law treats autonomous vehicles differently, Tesla doesn’t sell one.
> The law makes the driver of a vehicle liable for the operation, as it always has.
So, either those Tesla's don't really self-drive (which may be the case, I don't know, but then the whole discussion is moot), or they do, in which case, the human wasn't the one driving and may thus avoid liability.
Then of course there is the possibility that the court might be convinced the car was being drive collaboratively by the human and the car/the computer, in which case Tesla and the human might share the liability. IANA(US)L though.