[whats_a_quasar]

You're introducing a new claim, that it will be harder for families to have justice and be compensated when a death is caused by a robotaxi rather than a human. I don't see any reason to assume this. If anything, it ought to be easier to get a rich, large, well known corporate robotaxi company to provide compensation than a random individual who might even be driving uninsured

[CatWChainsaw]

The rich corporation is going to use their riches to exhaust your money supply on lawyers, and in the chance that you survive that test of endurance, offer a measly settlement with an NDA attached.

[NoZebra120vClip]

That's not my only claim. The additional gotcha is that the supposedly responsible human being is remote from the incident, and the regulators may find it more difficult to determine responsibility and assign liability to someone somewhere inside some very large company with a lot of network connectivity and an equal helping of plausible deniability. Compare that with a human at the wheel who hopefully carries a driver's license and proof of insurance?

Anyway, a "rich, large, well-known" company is always going to calculate the cost of a human life taken, vs. the cost of doing business, and run the margin right up to a rounding error. I don't doubt that their actuaries are just as good as GEICO's.

Lest we forget - corporations are people.