That's something I hadn't thought about. It makes sense. We hold drivers accountable, who do we hold accountable if it's partially self driven, but the driver is supposed to be ultimately responsible?
A lawyer would say Tesla, because $, but at least at this point I would still claim the driver is. Especially with 'beta' in the software title, where they're explicitly told to pay attention and take control.
I don't envy car manufactures working on this. They're facing exactly the same battle that Ford did when the 'horseless carriage' was becoming popular. We knew then that humans are honestly speaking, terrible drivers who frequently get distracted, or lose control of the vehicle.
I expect self-driving to follow exactly the same course that horseless carriages did, to have heavy early resistance and lots of bad incidents, then acceptance, then be utterly commonplace. With the same track record of decreasing accidents and increasingly safety measures over time and eventually cease to even be a controversy.
