> The problem with including a steering wheel in a self-driving car is that human drivers can’t be trusted to effectively take over in sticky situations. So the

> The problem with including a steering wheel in a self-driving car is that human drivers can’t be trusted to effectively take over in sticky situations. So the makers of driverless cars can’t responsibly include a steering wheel. Excellent. The thing that scared me was the idea of sitting in a car with the wheel moving by itself, trying to constantly guess if it was doing the right thing. I want to just sit down and go. > “A huge fraction of the time, nothing bad will happen because the vehicles really are reliable, hundreds of kilometers at a time before something really terrible happens,” Hundreds of thousands I hope that means, unless their cars cause a catastrophe every few trips. Or have I completely misunderstood that?