“My vehicle can drive itself” was the default state until Ford, Panhard, Bugatti and Rolls-Royce came with horse-less carriages. It wasn’t ideal: horse, oxen an

“My vehicle can drive itself” was the default state until Ford, Panhard, Bugatti and Rolls-Royce came with horse-less carriages. It wasn’t ideal: horse, oxen and asses got mad and rumbled into crowd regularly so it was far from ideal, but dandies needn’t no permission to get drawn by a new animal, be it a camel, and ostrich or tortoise. Then, with mechanisation drive-through lattes and texting, a little too many kids were crushed to death, with their severed limbs thrown in the air into their parents’ faces — so we had to change that state of affairs. We ask people to prove they realised they were sitting in armoured tanks, and make sure those tanks acted like expected. When the expectation is “you can go back to texting and sipping your latte, your tank will swerve when needed” that bar is, expectedly, incredibly high. You are more welcome to introduce any self-driving vehicle that is not independently powered with so much energy that it can kill on impact: clubs who make recumbent bikes are a good example of where to look for hackers in that area.