Definitely. I wouldn't want my car driving in an unsafe manner just to follow local ordinances. I'd be very curious if I could sue those local governments for

Definitely. I wouldn't want my car driving in an unsafe manner just to follow local ordinances. I'd be very curious if I could sue those local governments for endangering me if my vehicle is forced to follow their rules and gets in an avoidable accident because of them. It would be an eminent domain defense, in the sense that government can't deny me of my property without a justifiable (public safety) reason for doing so. And forcing my computer to behave in a certain way that causes it to potentially harm itself is definitely a denial of property. I'm sure they'll just write me a ticket though - and if no one has gotten out of that by citing statistics on road safety, my autonomous car won't be any better off. Hopefully, this will all be resolved reasonably with a national law and a nice bug report interface on Google's part.