> They put R&D resources toward not getting as many tickets and eventually fix their software to not get tickets?

Why would you assume they would do that?

What if the autonomous vehicle only blows a red and kills someone every once and a while and the lawyers to tie the family up in court are cheaper than the software dev and ai training to fix it?

Are you willing to wait until the number of dead people exceeds the cost of the fix?

Its an extreme example I know but to just assume they would fix it also assumes they are caught and ticketed 100% of the time.

There are tons of examples of corporate America weighting the pros and cons of things like this.