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by TeMPOraL 4108 days ago
Will they? You have zero control over the bus, or if they're driven by a chauffeur. For all intents and purposes, such vehicles are self-driving, just with some meat brain instead of a silicon one doing the thinking.

Also note that in both of my examples, you're not the owner of the vehicle. With self-driving cars there will be little reason to own a car, and such the need for having control will be smaller.
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phkn1 4106 days ago
Right, an autonomous ride-share car service would be ideal in its capacity to reduce the need for personal car ownership. But even so, technology is fallible in extenuating circumstances, and human intervention will always be needed as a recourse.
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TeMPOraL 4106 days ago
> But even so, technology is fallible in extenuating circumstances, and human intervention will always be needed as a recourse.

I disagree. The basic assumption for banning human drivers on public road is that the technology will reach the level of being strictly superior in terms of driving safely. At this point letting humans drive is just very stupid.

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