>>1030320LOL you're posting BAIT, but what you don't know is that the Silent Majority doesn't have any interest in 'self-driving cars', they don't trust them and never will trust them. The psychology behind that statement is the same mechanisms of the human brain that make us tool users: Tools humans use become an extension of our bodies, so far as our brain is concerned. If you have no controls you can manipulate in the vehicle you're in, it's no longer a 'tool', it's a TRAP, hurtling along at deadly speeds, and you can't control what it does. No sane person will willingly choose that.
Luckily for all of us and for public safety in general, so-called 'self-driving cars' will be REQUIRED to have a full set of manual controls that a human can use at any time, and drivers will still be REQUIRED to be educated, trained, tested, licensed, and insured, just like always, because experts in the fields of robotics and (so-called) artificial intelligence KNOW that the technology is only a pale imitation AT BEST for what a human driver's capabilities are, and as such are not ready to be 100% in control 100% of the time -- and likely never will be, either.
At best your 'self-driving car' will be a sophisticated 'autopilot system' -- as an option on high-end luxury vehicles only, since the average person will never be able to afford such a thing.
Do come back in 50 years or so -- by then, they MAY have figured out enough of how consciousness actually works to have something more like human-level AI; until then, it's just a pale imitation of human learning ability, at best, and a bad joke at worst.
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