re: #275 Nojay UK

I’d put it the other way around, driverless vehicles with lidar and geopositioning and all the other necessary hardware an autonomous vehicle needs would do a better job of driving in bad weather than humans armed only with the Mk1 eyeball (corrected if necessary, prone to degeneration by age or illness) and decision/reflex times in the tens of milliseconds (again prone to degeneration under the influence of drugs, hormones, tiredness, age and/or stupidity).

One of the biggest areas of development, beyond the technology of driverless traffic, will be the questions of liability and responsibility in the event of accidents or violations.

There was a recent New Yorker cartoon that shows an officer pulling over another vehicle and asking the driver “Does your car know why my car stopped it?”.