Torts/Personal Injury,
Technology
Aug. 17, 2023
Autonomous vehicles are evolving, as are their tort liability risks
While state and federal governments continue to grapple with how to implement a standard approach to regulating fully autonomous vehicles, those in the insurance industry should be proactive in ascertaining how traditional civil liability rules will be applied to fully autonomous vehicles once implemented.
The popular growth of autonomous vehicles in the US has the potential to improve road safety, decreasing the opportunity for individual driver negligence and shifting to a product defect analysis. This could forever change the risks faced by the insurance industry. However, these innovations come with a broad range of legal issues.
So far, the United States government has refrained from implementing comprehensive regulations, leaving stat...
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