Regardless of which field you work in, almost every attorney is familiar with the core aspects of a car crash case. Imagine someone is driving down the road, he or she behaves negligently in some way, crashes the car into someone else, and causes damage to that other person or car. The responsible driver is held accountable for his or her negligence. It seems trite to rehash something so obvious, but there is a realistic possibility that we could be in the early stages of an entirely different approach to establishing culpability in car wrecks.

Driverless cars are still more of a gimmick than a mode of transportation, but the obvious potential of having a “perfect” automated driver is too compelling to ignore. However, the arrival of the driverless car has major potential ramifications with regard to both our legal and ethical systems.