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I Designed A Modification For My Car, Now Other People Want To Buy It. I'm Afraid Of Getting Sued If Someone Claims The Modification Caused A Crash.

Edit: RIP inbox. The project is getting canned and I am not going to sell it. It's not something that would've made any money anyway.

Location: North Carolina, USA. Consumer law(?)

Without getting too deep into it, I designed an adaptive cruise control system for my older car. This involves sensing the speed of another vehicle ahead and decreasing the factory cruise control speed to match it. Other people with that same car are interested in buying it, but I am worried that if I took payment for it, I could be held liable if they got into an accident because the aftermarket system I created didn't slow their car down in time. It is not an emergency braking or crash mitigation system, it just "presses the slow down cruise control button for you", effectively.

Would a signed release be enough in this situation? If I made it open source (free to download, but you have to build it yourself) and asked for donations, am I still on the hook? This would be a kit that the end user would install, requiring a significant amount of electrical modifications to the original car. It is a hobbyist project and not FMVSS.

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I Designed A Modification For My Car, Now Other People Want To Buy It. I'm Afraid Of Getting Sued If Someone Claims The Modification Caused A Crash.

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