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I am still yet to see an answer to the liability question on driverless trucks. Are the truck manufacturers going to take that insurance on? It cost Airbus billions of dollars when their software screwed up and they got massive amounts of government support to basically bail them out.

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Presumable automated trucks will kill less people than human operated ones, so the insurance will be cheaper.

I am sure the companies who will operate those trucks and the manufacturers can figure a way to divide liability.

They seem to be doing just fine figuring out how to deal with the liability associated with the 3600 or so people who die in crashes involving big trucks every year.

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