Re: Safety-critical updates?
Common sense says that this shouldn't be implemented materially differently from what we have at the moment for a manually driven car. If a safety critical manufacturing or design defect is discovered (e.g. braking system fault) a recall is issued to all owners of affected cars. You are given a reasonable amount of time to get the car into a garage and fixed free of charge. Sometimes the biggest delay is capacity at the garages if the recall is big. From the moment the car is built to when you get if fixed the manufacturer has a level of liability for the issue. If however you ignore the recalls and don't get it fixed, after a reasonable time the manufacturers liability diminishes to zero.