[maxander]

The issue then is, again, humans- the rider of an autonomous car will feel slighted and helpless seeing the cars around them take advantage of their nice and polite driver-AI, and this will make owning driverless cars less appealing to a wide swath of the customer base.

You and I might still enjoy passively riding an altruistic vehicle, but an astonishing amount of the public id is absorbed in these sort of anonymous dominance games.

[jessaustin]

I thought the point of "autonomy" was being able to ignore the whole mess? If I'm constantly worried about how the car is driving, I might as well be a child with my mother driving. How would that be less silly than worrying about the performance of e.g. train engineers and airline pilots?