"Never" is a long time.

Given the explanations I've been given for why demonstration videos of general purpose vision-based robots are still often sped up x4 or more (despite Tesla and Spot), I have to assume it's at least a few years away yet, but that's not never.

The human will always be responsible. There is no way the manufacturers are going to accept liability in case their self driving car has an accident.

I remember hearing something different. Seems like Mercedes is moving in that direction.

https://insideevs.com/news/575160/mercedes-accepts-legal-res...

Interesting. I’ll be happy to eat my hat in a couple of years, but I don’t think this will be generalised.

Even if so, they may be forced to do so for the right to market the vehicle as self driving.

I would favour this.

Even if legally you're not culpable, you're still responsible for choosing to use a death machine in an environment where it can cause harm to others.

Are you arguing against human drivers there, or against cars in general?

Against personal cars in cities