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Google recently reported 11 minor accidents with its self-driving cars over six years and nearly two million miles driven -- and the company says that none of the scrapes were its fault. That sounds like a solid safety record. But when the first person gets killed because of a decision the Google robot car makes, who will be held responsible for that death?
 
Should they become popular (and if Carl Icahn and others are right, they will), robot cars will face this scenario a large number of times, as there are more than 5.5 million car accidents in the U.S. every year, resulting in nearly 33,000 deaths, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.


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Who Is Going To Be Responsible When The First Driverless Fatality Occurs?

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