[HankB99]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the US legal system as part of a solution. If a robo-taxi causes material harm, sue the operator for some multiple of the cost of the harm.

I suppose the drawback to this strategy is that real harm has to happen first and that could easily involve loss of life or limb, but perhaps the threat of that would be enough to motivate the robo-taxi providers to fix the problem.

[anigbrowl]

If the US legal system is so effective why are there so many personal injury cases? Growing up abroad, US litigousness was a joke when I was in elementary school (>40 years ago). Other developed countries seem to have significantly lower problems with avoidable mortality; maybe the American approach is just not that great.

[JumpCrisscross]

> If a robo-taxi causes material harm, sue the operator for some multiple of the cost of the harm.

There haven’t been many cases of actual harm. This article pretty much lists out situations which could cause harm but didn’t, due to factors out of the operator’s or fire department’s control.

[Sharlin]

Yes, but it seems here that the regulators are bending over backwards to dole out permits for these vehicles without bothering to think about the externalities. Still, one would think that 1) the operators could be charged with obstruction of emergency services and/or 2) they could be sued for damages in the civil court.