If a Self-Driving Car Gets in an Accident, Who Is Liable?

On first contact with the idea that robots should be extended legal personhood, it sounds crazy. Robots aren't people! And that is true. But the concept of legal personhood is less about what is or is not a flesh-and-blood person and who/what is or is not able to be hauled into court. And if we want to have robots do more things for us, like drive us around or deliver us things, we might need to assign them a role in the law, says lawyer John Frank Weaver, author of the book Robots Are People, ...