| Who’s liable in a ‘self-driving’ car crash? Techstreet Now: Cassandra Burke Robertson, the John Deaver Drinko-BakerHostetler Professor of Law and director of the Center for Professional Ethics, opined on the legal gray area of liability when semi-autonomous vehicles are involved in accidents. “If you ask automobile manufacturers,” she said, “they’ll tell you the driver is always fully responsible—even when supervised autonomy fails—because advanced driver assistance systems require constant human oversight, even when autonomous features are active.” |
Cassandra Burke Robertson, the
John Deaver Drinko - BakerHostetler Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Professional Ethics at Case Western Reserve University