Robot Cars Pose Unprecedented Risks to Consumers, Consumer Watchdog Tells CA Senate Committee

“Proposition 103 will stop insurance companies and robot car and truck manufacturers from shifting the blame, and the cost, onto consumers when the robot car’s hardware and software fail,” said Lost in the hyperbole over driverless vehicles is an objective analysis of the impact of fully self-driving cars, which will comprise only a modest portion of all vehicles on the roads for decades to come, the group said. “That period will feature complex, potentially dangerous interactions between people , computer-driven cars and buses, remote-controlled drone vehicles, and so-called “intelligent” public streets and freeways that are supposed to help them all navigate safely.”