Everyone is discussing about how autonomous cars will react to various situations. However, the real question is - once we have walled gardens, who'll control i

Everyone is discussing about how autonomous cars will react to various situations. However, the real question is - once we have walled gardens, who'll control it - the manufacturers or the government? By that I mean, all automated cars (especially level 5) would need some kind of network connection (both cellular and mesh) - which means "your" car (if you own one - which from the looks of how things are shaping is going to be highly unlikely), could easily be stopped for variety of reasons with or without your permissions. It could be hacked by 3 letter agencies, or by hackers who can than case mass disruption. While I'm not against self driving cars, I'm very cautious against the "self-driving are the best - they'll reduce death on the road and if you don't support it you are a death loving luddite who can't get on with the times" school of thought. We saw what happened with we gave up control on our phones, and that's slowly happening to our computers (sure, most of readers here can run/use linux, but linux on desktops still has a much lower market share compared to Windows 10). I just feel like it's not the right future that I imagined as a kid watching star trek and it's disappointing. EDIT: another unrelated point I'd like to add is the fact that if we want to have autonomous cars on the road - we'd need co-operation between various companies (which would be easy - we have browser vendors do that, why not car companies?), but more importantly, we need a huge overhaul of our infrastructure for autonomous cars and we need to outlaw humans driving cars on such roads).