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While I personally wouldn’t that doesn’t stop a bunch of people from kicking their feet up and texting as their Model S’s drive them down 280 every morning. They’re already agreeing to the trade off between convenience and liability. I think you underestimate how much some people value the convenience.

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That some idiots may misuse their vehicle assistive driving system is different from you having to sign an agreement when you purchase your self-driving car in which you agree to hold the manufacturer harmless and accept full responsibility for [long list of things] that may happen during autonomous operation.

I think there's a difference between agreeing to hold the manufacturer harmless for anything that happens and accepting basic liability for purchasing the car and putting it on the road.

I guess jedberg's idea is that there needs to be a place for the buck to start, as it were, wherever it might end up. Currently that is the driver. However, I don't see why it couldn't start with the manufacturer. They could always try to shift blame to the owner if they were misusing it somehow or interfering with its correct operation.

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