[kelnos]

how many lawmakers are going to say "Sure, only .001% of robot cars on the road get into catastrophic accidents in unhandled situations, that's fine, let's make these things legal"?

If they're actually thinking properly (doubtful), they'll look at the rate of catastrophic accidents with human drivers, and make a call based on whether or not self-driving cars are an improvement.

[Rapzid]

Yeah, hopefully. There are right near 200M licensed drivers in the US. That would be 200k catastrophic accidents!