Roll Call reports the “advent of self-driving cars is raising questions in the insurance sector about who should pay when the vehicles crash and how insurers will set equitable rates.” When cars “can operate themselves, the central question will be whether accidents are the manufacturer’s responsibility and therefore covered by product liability insurance or whether the fault would lie with the driver and be covered by personal auto insurance.” While even today’s “most advanced cars aren’t fully autonomous, experts say such cars are coming and the insurance question will only become more urgent.”
From the news release of the American Association for Justice.
