Uber, Google and others form self-driving car lobby to shape US policy

If your self-driving car crashes, who gets sued? Google, Uber, and Ford would rather it be you, according to some experts. Tech companies making self-driving cars could become better protected under the law than those car's owners, experts warn, as the announcement came of a powerful new coalition of automakers and big tech companies forming to take on US government regulations around self-driving vehicles. Google, Uber, Lyft, Ford and Volvo, all of which are working on self-driving car technology, will lobby as the Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets to bring autonomous vehicles to the road across the US. Related: We don't need self-driving cars – we need to ditch our vehicles entirely Heading it up will be David Strickland, the former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Administration, the same group he will now be working to influence.