I'm always reminded of this when I see the self driving car concepts...

Ok Chrissi, so what you need to do is find or employ a legal-bot to argue the benefits of self-driving cars. The they will need to argue with the bank to allow you to finance the price of a self-driving car. Then you will need to make sure that the self-driving car doesn't get hacked or come down with a virus that causes it to require time off to get well. Of course you could once again find or employ a legal-bot to attempt to fix the sick self-driving car, which will lead to the legal-bot getting sick with the same virus, which will then cause the legal-bot to over charge you and then argue that you need to be imprisoned for some made up thing you didn't actually do.

Or you could just take an ezb and make your own self-driving vehicle, knowing full well you have full control over everything and be far better off.

What is a self driving car to do in the case that a child darts out in front of you on a bridge. Dose the car sacrifice the drive for the child or run over the child?

The cars controller MUST BE "Asimov Compliant".

its a scary idea to think that you cannot stop automatization. we will loose alot like how does it feel to drive a car or bike. a huge amount unemployment will rise and keep rising,like the man in de video says, it never stops,its a big diff when one person make a mistake,its only one then. but when a machien makes a mistake there are thousands. its good to know how it works.bring it in practise absolute bad idea. its a step closer to the downfall off human ras. like all inventions are really good ,but as we learn in practise we use it for bad things. excample cell phone ,very nice now i can speak friends or famely far away, but also we kill people whit it now.one click off a button many people dies. avery invention comes whit a prize,question is are we willing to pay the prize.(humanly).

nothing personal chrissi .

@nomad18.08.... Airliners already do it now... Modern jets can land and take off by themselves (computer)... Of course google has autonomous cars right now on the road... Why would one machine cause "thousands" (I assume you mean accidents)? Since driver error is by far the main reason for automobile crashes, replacing him/her with a computer stops 99% of all accidents.

Further point,... is that these autonomous vehicles will have the ability to turn on and off the "auto drive" with a flick of a switch... Letting the human can take over... You will always have the choice to driver or not drive.... Just think, no more excuses for drunk driving... In the end there is not much difference between this and auto pilot in an aircraft...

There are cars which are almost driver less already. Auto parking, auto braking, cruise control, side lane assist, traffic jam assist... basically look at the options on an Audi A7, the things can pretty much drive themselves now.

The big question is how do you insure it? Who is the driver? Who is liable if you are asleep in the passenger seat while the car drives you home and mows down little Timmy from down the road because a sensor failed or didn't detect him or drives off a cliff because the sat nav got confused?

I understand your point Rich, but don't you think the "system" would have self diagnosis? Wouldn't it know if a sensor failed or if it lost GPS and then compensate for that? There would be "what if" backups built into the system for sure... This happening is hugely less likey than human error causing an accident.... Here in Canada, the owner would be held liable in the event of an accident...

This reminds of the huge ongoing discussion we have on my bike forum about the pros and cons of ABS on a motorcycle... I am in the pro camp...