Not So Fast: A Brief Plea for Muddling Through the Problems of Autonomous Vehicle Liability

Abstract Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are likely to change a great deal about the practical workings of the liability system for auto accidents. However, we cannot know how just yet. Attempts to anticipate the future and preemptively redesign the liability system around its imagined contours are likely to invite error and frustration.

Discretion often being the better part of valor, I suggest we muddle through a bit first.