Andrew Miller

Tesla, I think to their discredit, has suggested that they might not want to, certainly with regards to their driver assist systems, they've been reluctant to assert that responsibility because I think the potential for lawsuits is so vast.

They are trying to protect themselves.

And what I think regulators need to do is say, you need to have the courage of your convictions.

So we're going to hold you to that standard.

We're going to insist upon it.

Yeah.

Liability is tricky.

The American liability is based on the idea that no consumer can hope to stand up to a big company.

So we put all of the weight in legal proceedings on the customer side.

And that's led to a jurisprudential culture, if I can use that word, where the cost of getting anything wrong from a manufacturer's side is vast.

It's existentially vast.

So I told you earlier that there were three big companies in this space.

There's Waymo, there's Zoox, and there's Tesla.

There used to be a fourth.

It was called Cruise, and it was an arm of General Motors.

So it was involved in an accident a few years ago where someone hit someone who was jaywalking, and they threw the human jaywalker into the path of a cruise vehicle, which ran them over.

And then the cruise vehicle, because it didn't know what to do, it moved to the safe position.

It pulled to the stop, dragging that poor, unfortunate soul with them.

And they weren't killed, but they were severely injured.

Yeah, a human driver would never have made that mistake.