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1. No, any time people are saving by not driving a car while riding in one will quickly be gobbled up for productivity purposes rather than leisure. Think taking conference calls or working on spreadsheets while commuting to your office. Think truck drivers sitting in their truck all day while the truck mostly drives itself.

2. Going beyond AI, the fastest approach is commercial vehicles controlled by drivers operating from remote offices. Think buses, trucks, etc.

3. Test the cars in locations where people who could possibly be affected cannot afford to create lawsuits for any kind of accidents that may occur.

4. Absolutely not. Edge cases are fairly infinite.

5. Number of acceptable road deaths per year will be higher than what people want. However, the deaths will be more randomly distributed rather than being concentrated mostly on bad or unsafe drivers as we have today.

6. Driving will become a less valuable skill and thus there will be cheaper and fewer jobs available for such people who specialize in it.