I basically agree with all that. I think I'd further say that the way any kind of practical regulation shakes out, it may never make sense for individuals to ow

I basically agree with all that. I think I'd further say that the way any kind of practical regulation shakes out, it may never make sense for individuals to own self-driving cars. If we are to hold the creator of self-driving systems responsible for any poor behavior of their creations (as we very well should!), then they must have both the ability to be certain that all of their deployed software and hardware is always in the intended correct working order, and the ability to perform fixes and updates on demand of either themselves or some regulating agency. Therefore, it seems pointless for it to ever be possible for an individual to "own" such a thing. They would inevitably be mandated to never attempt to modify the system and to accept any updates and maintenance tasks immediately on the creator's demand. So why should any reasonable individual, or banks who would have to be writing loans to those individuals, want to own such a thing when they have so little control over it and so many liabilities? Consider a situation like - the car has 6 laser/lidar sensors. It is designed to continue operating as well as possible if one of them malfunctions. If one of them does infact malfunction, who is responsible for deciding when to replace it and paying for such service? If you truly own such a vehicle, wouldn't you be the one paying for it? And if you're paying for it, how could you not be the one deciding exactly when it happens? So then inevitably some people would put it off as long as possible and have the vehicle operating in a degraded condition. Maybe it could try to refuse to operate until serviced, but when? Maybe when you're out of town somewhere, or when you have an important meeting to make it to later? Liability, even conditional, for the end user doesn't seem like a very good solution either. Is it really a good system for every unfortunate incident to become a legal battle between an individual owner and what would necessarily be a gigantic mega-corporation with a fat legal budget for who is really responsible? Yeah, no. So I think I just proved that self-driving cars pretty much always have to be operated as a taxi-like system as Waymo etc currently do. Lidar sensor breaks? Not my problem, the service needs to send another one, no matter what the location - it can't go to any location it couldn't send a replacement to anyways. If there's any problems, there's always a clear party responsible - a giant wealthy mega-corp that is very easy to regulate and fine and capable of fixing the whole fleet fast. Am I missing something here? Maybe, but I don't see it right now.