>> but so much physical, legal, and regulatory infrastructure needs to change Let's go with that. Say that tomorrow Google finished the development of the car.

>> but so much physical, legal, and regulatory infrastructure needs to change Let's go with that. Say that tomorrow Google finished the development of the car. It works very well. Than it just need to find a single city that would agree to a wide scale deployment. And I imagine there are plenty of reasons why a city might want to do that. Heck if Google cared, they could legally bribe politicians. And it doesn't even have to be a city in the west. It could be a city ruled by a dictator somewhere in africa. Or it could be a self driving car created by a chinese company, and china would be willing to take the risk to lead in this field. So maybe the first city isn't as hard as it seems. Now what happens after a car has proven itself in a city for a year or two ?Showing almost zero accidents, and all the other benefits of a self-driving car. How much will people everywhere would want it ? how much political support would it gather ? i imagine a lot. Would such support and proof be enough for relatively rapid deployment of self-driving cars ?