> From a political perspective, what's necessary until the safety drivers are no longer legally required? I believe there are a couple places that don't require

> From a political perspective, what's necessary until the safety drivers are no longer legally required? I believe there are a couple places that don't require them now, actually. Essentially, the legislature of the state in question passes a law defining what's required for truly autonomous operation. That can be pretty much anything they want. The really interesting stuff starts happening when there's enough of these things driving around that we start getting accidents. How will insurance companies or the sponsor companies deal with that? What will happen in any lawsuits resulting from any accidents? I guess we'll have to wait and see. It's a bit sad, but it's probably for the best that there's big companies with deep pockets and big legal departments behind this.