There's nothing wrong with pumping the brakes on this a little and letting the hype bubble dissipate. As the article states, driverless cars are involved in 4-

There's nothing wrong with pumping the brakes on this a little and letting the hype bubble dissipate. As the article states, driverless cars are involved in 4-5 times more accidents. The companies promoting these cars say that it's ok, since the driverless cars were in most cases not legally responsible for the accidents, but that misses the point that driverless cars perform unorthodox manuevers in certain situations, at least by current driving conventions, and that more people are getting hurt. If we could identify a human behavior that was causing some people to be involved in 4-5 times more accidents, there would likely be interest in doing something about that. It's more a case that the laws are currently designed to counter inappropriate human drivers, not inappropriate machine drivers. We don't even know what inappropriate activity by machine drivers is at this point.