‘Who will be held accountable in case of driverless car accidents?’ January 23, 2021 × A Distinguished Fellow of the IIT Robert Bosch Centre says one must question if the manufacturer of the vehicle or the developer of the tech will take accountability in such cases While autonomous vehicles are gaining momentum globally, legal scholars are figuring out who will be held accountable if there is an accident involving such a vehicle, said Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Distinguished Fellow, IIT Madras Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) in a fireside chat with researchers on Thursday. He asked, “If a company manufactures autonomous vehicles and if it gets into an accident, who is liable? If it turns out to be the fault of the driverless car, is the manufacturer liable? Is the developer of the AI technology or manufacturer of the chips liable?”