>>>>>- In the event of a collision involving self driving vehicle(s), where does responsibility lie?
>>>>>- What if your car decides to drive you through a guard rail and over a cliff, to avoid hitting a gaggle of school children who have wandered onto the road?
>>>>>- Your friendly neighbourhood political strongman's motorcade is approached at high speed by a suicide car bomber. His motorcade overrides your car and maneuvers it into the path of the suicide bomber. You get a posthumous medal and your widow gets some flowers
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>>>Presumably the same queries apply whenever you take a bus, taxi or Uber. I guess we can look at cities like London where many/most locals don't even have a motor vehicle.
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>>It's long been said that one great comfort to having human pilots is someone in control who has a vested interest in getting you to your destination intact - even if, in many cases, autopilots are superior.
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>>The same is true to some extent with buses, taxis and Uber - as long as they have human "pilots".
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>>Besides that, if something goes wrong you can throw a human "pilot" in jail. Throwing a computer in jail somehow isn't quite as satisfying ;)
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>I think the person who programmed the system gets to go to jail.

How do you figure out who that is?