Autonomous cars will be on line and guarantee connection to NSA. You will be seen and heard and that will be attached to the meta data of your GPS and all. When necessary they can drive you to jail

A few bullets into something critical to the drivetrain should take care of the latter problem.

OK. From inside the FWD car going 65 MPH on the freeway, what do you propose to shoot?

Seems like we have alot of driverless cars on the road already ,an example appeared in frt of my vehicle yesterday ,upon entering an on ramp to the freeway the lady driver infrt of me decides to completely come down to a stop from 55mph ,the lane she and I were driving was completely open with no converging traffic.I went around her and luckily the semi behind me got away with a minimium stop distance.

Assuming a gas car, fuel lines running under the floor. Or the roof-mounted sensors to render the computer blind.

Assuming I owned a self-driving car (rather than renting one), I'd probably also put in a switch that disconnects power to the main fuel pump or the motor contactor in case of an electric car. Everything needs a Big Red Button(tm). Dave Bowman lobotomizing HAL-9000 one circuit board at the time, is one of my favorite movie scenes.

The Google car has only two buttons, a stop/go button and an emergency button.

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I had the same argument with a friend a few months ago. Assuming the programming is at least adequately done and the components are properly assembled (not as much of a problem now vs the 80s and 90s), the computer is faster to react and more accurate than a human can ever be. The failure rate would be much lower than the failure rate of human drivers, but I personally think that the car should have in its programming an option to hand over the controls to the person who is in what is now the driver's seat in case of the unlikely failure of radar components and the such. I suspect the system would have many redundancies to prevent that from ever happening.

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Excellent choice. Start the vehicle on fire at highway speed with the fuel pump flaming the fire as furiously as possible since the engine computer demands it to compensate for lost speed. A roast to you But sure, there should be fail safes. Like a person behind the wheel that can participate at will. However, the idea of a vehicle shutting down in traffic is not so pretty.

I imagine that similar ideas were suggested at around the time when the horseless carriage was introduced.

They don't mention that the doors lock from the outside but I'm sure it is somewhere in the fine print.

Cheaper and less messy than drone attacks.

There is a lot they could do to make it better but it is just so darn profitable the way it is going. If too many people die in the name of profit they can just come up with a new reality show on the joy of teenage pregnancy.

How many people die every year on the roads in the US? Taking the most unreliable part out of the equation seems like a no brainer.

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This is why they say: NEVER SHAKE A BABY.....

they never told in the news Mercedes did this last year with a car.
For me,no way I'd buy6 one.To many electronics that can go down.

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Whoa! Wait! Hold the presses! A thread about cars? Do you think this is an automotive forum or something?

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Again, then it's an unsafe situation for all. The local government could also be responsible for neglecting such a hazardous traffic engineering situation. Still, how different would the situation be with an autonomous vehicle versus a human driver?