[CaliforniaKarl]

Every time I hear about stuff like this, I'm reminded of the words of Jeremy Clarkson:

"It's a brilliant idea, designed by very smart people, but one day you know that this will be bought by a man named Keith, and he is going to wake up one morning and think he can service it himself. And you won’t be able to relax in your autonomobile [sic] because you know that Keith is in his, coming the other way."

I really hope that humanity will be able to advance fast enough, to keep up with the advances in self-driving and assisted-driving vehicles.

[adimitrov]

How on earth is this worse than the current situation, where Keith is already in his, coming the other way.

Drunk.

And texting.

In other words: the amount of people currently willing and able to commit gross negligence while driving is certainly higher than the amount of people willing and able to conduct grossly negligent repairs on their autonomous vehicles in the future.