Tesla'ed in a Parking Mishap

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My ex-insurance investigator instinct says that if no contact was made between the bike and the car, especially in a parking lot at low speeds, the liability would be too hard to prove on the car driver, and could be directed back at the rider for not having enough control to keep a bike from tipping over, that it would be very difficult to prove in the rider's favor.

emptysea:
"I completely agree with your message to be extra cautious in parking lots, but I'd rather be in a parking lot filled with self-parking vehicles than one filled with 80 year-old drivers parking themselves."

HaHa! Sounds like something Mrs. G said on Saturday. We currently have fleets of Waymo (https://waymo.com/) self-driving cars running around the Los Angeles area. They are driver-less Jaguar SUVs that can be hailed via an app like Uber. They are easy to spot, with large sensors attached all over them, and for the most part, drive around very predictably and safely. When Mrs. comes with me to the museum, she spends the time during my four or five hour shift walking up to a nearby shopping center where she sets up her computer in a coffee shop to get her work done. She has to pass the intersection of 3rd and Fairfax, a very treacherous and busy intersection for pedestrians. Typically cars dart around trying to beat pedestrians. She commented yesterday that "I'd rather have the street full of Waymo cars than these crazy drivers!"