I was listening to NPR the other day when their expert was asked if he though that this weeks accident will delay wide deployment of self driving cars. The expert's opinion was that it would. However I feel that the opposite is true. I believe that this event will eventually speed up the adoption of self driving cars.

I feel that before this unfortunate accident, the advancement of the technology was moving very quickly, but almost nothing was being done on the legislation required to allow self driving cars on our highways. More specifically, who will be responsible if an accident occurs. Is it the car's owner, the manufacturer, or could the programmer who wrote the code be held responsible? Without new laws on the books, fully autonomous cars will never be legal. Today the victim's family announced that they are suing Uber. This will require our courts to start the sussing out how to deal with accidents involving self driving cars.

What are your thoughts?

Statistically less to go wrong with a train then a car.