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There's an industry in the United States that is facing a challenge right now that is

so difficult that the answers have not been easy.

The vehicles that we drive, if you buy a well-equipped vehicle that you bought in the last

couple of years, it has all kinds of automation on it that vehicles never used to have, that

can automatically do emergency braking potentially, can keep you from running into another vehicle

that you start to move into their lane in your blind spot or it can be well beyond these

new safety devices designed to prevent accidents rather than the prior phase of safety, which

was to try to keep us alive or reduce injuries when we're in an accident, whole different

era avoiding accidents.

The question is, who's liable?

Who's responsible?

If you're operating a vehicle that has automation in it or even steps beyond like Cadillac with

its technology where the vehicle's self-driving on a huge number of divided highways in interstates

in the country or Tesla that is within, by its telling within, I think 10 months of launching

fully autonomous vehicles and Waymo, which is the subsidiary of Alphabet, the parent

company of Google, who has vehicles on the road in Arizona that are completely autonomous.

So, if there's an accident in spite of all this automation, who's it fault?

Is it the automaker or is it the person who is essentially considered to be behind the

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