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A comment on Waymo's collision avoidance testing. Parent comment

Re:Waymo's collision avoidance testing by amf12 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:23PM (#33991511)
> Consider, if Waymo gets to the point where they have a self driving car that you have to have a subscription to use, do you own the car? Are you the liable for any accidents it has?

I'd imagine the company would take on liability, as long as humans can't drive the vehicle or they aren't driving when the accident occurred. Mercedes already got the ball rolling on this [1].

[1] https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a39481699/what-happens-if-...

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Re:Waymo's collision avoidance testing by taeric on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:48PM (#33991864)
I can't see that path getting taken without you basically losing ownership of the car?
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Re:Waymo's collision avoidance testing by amf12 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @10:42PM (#33994913)
Agreed, but I can see it being solely a "lease" model. For companies to take on liability, they'd have to make sure a customer doesn't modify the vehicle and keeps up with the maintenance. They might also want the authority to disable "self driving" on non-compliant vehicles.
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