Two Autonomous Cars Almost Collide - Who is at Fault?

[Timco]

Shouldn't the story be that both cars avoided each other?

[Frodo]

Originally Posted by Timco

Shouldn't the story be that both cars avoided each other?

True...nobody's "at fault" when there's been no collision, no injury, no property damage.

That said, eventually there WILL be such a collision, with all the attendant issues of property damage and personal injury. At that point, I'll side with JFP..

[Paul]

The guy that wrote the code?

Imagine what the lawyers would do with this:

While watching your car drive itself, the car determines it can not stop in time to avoid hitting a stopped semi and avoid killing you unless it swerves and hits a young women pushing a baby carriage...