[ajmurmann]

This is a very interesting point and I wonder if this might at some point turn into an advantage once there are enough self driving cars. Here is a potential feature: I am in an emergency and request "emergency override" or whatever you want to call it. Maybe someone pops up on the screen asks a question or not, maybe the override gets activated immediately and deactivated if it gets identified that I don't actually have an emergency. If the override is active the car goes faster and more importantly communicates to other self driving cars what's going on. Other cars will automatically make room like they would for an emergency vehicle. In general how self driving cars react to emergency vehicles of any kind could be so much better than anything we have today.

[restalis]

Yes, that is an interesting solution. Either letting the driver to take risks or allowing the autopilot to have a special mode so it can override a lot if not all of the limiting factors that would otherwise be commended. It's something like "give me 110% now, I'll gladly answer for that later if I'll have to!"