[cheatsheet]

The only thing I am concerned with is how secure / exploitable they are from a computer security perspective. I assume there will be some kind of link between the vehicular peripherals to vehicle control and configuration. Then I worry about who is actually controlling the car. I'm open to AI driven cars with redundant intelligent networks, but people are smart too, and some people are not nice people. How do you know that the entire system is functioning as expected? I'm pretty sure that's NP hard.

[undersuit]

> people are smart too, and some people are not nice people.

What did you do to these people? Because there are two reasons these people aren't going to be nice to you: you offended them, or you're a random target of violence that we already experience, but now it takes the form of a homicidal self driving car instead of a boy in a movie theater with automatic weapons.

Are you advocating we stop pursuing self driving cars just because security is an open ended problem?

[cheatsheet]

I expressed my own personal concern.

This conversation will not be about equivocating one tragedy to another. That is a red herring.

[matthewmacleod]

Definitely a concern, but I'm not sure what can be done about that – except for "let's develop the technology so that can't happen", even though that seems unlikely.