
18 Cognitive Robotics
where a driver is uninsured, but also for accidents incurred by drivers who
abscond and are not traceable for the prosecution of an insurance claim.
I support the proposal by Anniina Huttunen and her colleagues in Fin-
land, a proposal also discussed by Ryan Calo at Stanford University, for a
compulsory insurance system for robots. But I go even further by advocating
an electronically driven monitoring process for law enforcement agencies,
whereby they can check if a robot is adequately insured. If the detection
method discovers that adequate insurance is not in place the robot will be
temporarily disabledby anelectronic message ...