> and then hand off to human telepresence control. It wouldn't surprise me if the first self-driving systems worked that way. The issue is that humans fare bad

> and then hand off to human telepresence control. It wouldn't surprise me if the first self-driving systems worked that way. The issue is that humans fare badly in situations where they don't have to pay attention until they suddenly have a short time to react before disaster, and that's exactly the problem that "supervised" self-driving systems have been suffering from when they crash. And if you have to pay constant attention to the road anyway, I'd rather be driving myself. What's going to win won't be self-driving tech, it will be driver assist, like advanced anti-lock brakes, or self-adjusting cruise control.