self propelled cars

Who gets the blame?

Fully driverless cars are years away, but car manufacturers think they’ll be in showrooms by 2020, and insurance agencies and lawyers want to be prepared. So far, only California, Nevada and Florida have passed laws about this. It’s preferable for these laws to be put through at the Federal level, to avoid a patchwork of different state laws. If you had an accident while "driving" your self-propelled car in the wrong state, would you program it to leave the scene and cross the next state line? Special licenses for driverless cars are likely to be implemented in many states.
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You can’t yet buy a car that drives itself, but you’ll soon be able to get one that lets you know whether or not you’re a safe driver, by using biometric sensors to check on your vital signs, including pulse, breathing and "skin conductance," (sweaty palms–a sign of your emotional state). That information will then fed into the computer that controls your car’s safety systems, meaning that it might not let you start the car if it decides that you’re not healthy enough to drive.
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