Its nonsensical to think a human can take over at a moment's notice during a particular maneuver. Its the threat of death/accident that makes me pay attention t

Its nonsensical to think a human can take over at a moment's notice during a particular maneuver. Its the threat of death/accident that makes me pay attention to every moment of driving. On autopilot I wont have that kind of attention. Its simply a trait of the human attention span. That being said, every self-driving car needs a manual override because there are plenty of situations that cant be easily explained to a computer. the override could be done with a steering wheel and gas pedal, or just a joy-stick mode on the touchscreen pad. For instance someone has a big empty lot and they want to move a car from row A to row B. The new spot is exactly 50 feet to the right. I just want to back the car up, and go forward while steering over to the right a bit. Row B has no 'street address' to program into a route-computer. I could click on a map but the map doesnt know where on the grass i want to drive. Even with lidar, etc. there are grey areas that self-driving algorithms are going to have trouble with. Drop a sheet of tissue in the path of a self-driving car moving at 60MPH. The lidar will see it as a solid object and might decide a very dangerous plan - maximum braking - is the best plan, when going through it is actually the best plan.