Torts/Personal Injury,
Technology
Mar. 20, 2024
AI self-driving cars present a host of new legal issues
The approval of Google’s WAYMO self-driving taxis in Southern California raises legal issues involving safety, liability, and insurance coverage. Despite the potential benefits of AI-driven vehicles, legal rules and liability need to be developed, not only by government regulators, but also by the courts.
Mark A. Neubauer
Shareholder, Carlton Fields LLP
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Email: mneubauer@carltonfields.com
UCLA SOL; Los Angeles CA
What San Francisco stopped as too dangerous, Los Angeles has now leaped into.
Last week’s Public Utility Commission’s approval of Google’s WAYMO self-driving taxis in Southern California opens a Pandora’s Box of legal issues. San Francisco has already confronted the problems of self-driving cars in the collapse of GM’s Cruise program. GM’s Cruise experimental fleet of self-driving cabs came to a screeching halt this past October when a Cru...