> I hope we can view these incidents in context.

The desire to hold some entity legally responsible for any accidents seems to be the key problem. That problem is really about punishing the responsible party. If someone dies because of an irresponsible driver, the outcomes of the case are always some sort combination of punishments: fines, incarceration, suspensions, etc.

Proposed Solution:

Legislation can easily be passed that provides clear guidelines about how these errors of judgement in computing systems can be punished. For example:

In situations of death, $X is paid to the victim's family, $Y is paid to the federal government, the company's automated vehicle manufacture license is suspended until federal review, etc.

Then, its a simple matter of getting humans to sign to agree that they will accept these terms.