Everyone seems to be downvoting you but I agree. Our tech is not even nearly in the universe of good enough to strap to a 2 ton vehicle traveling at 100kph along random roads.
And by tech I'm including security, because that's the part that I'm worried about too. There's so much incentive for bad actors to mess with these systems, and the consequences are catastrophic.
Just imagine setting up a hidden 1550nm lidar jammer/spammer to confuse cars on a freeway. You could make cars crash and nobody would even know it was there. Even if it made only 0.1% of the cars just slightly more likely to crash, it could still cause deaths.
Also RCE and DOS attacks now the cars have remote start and other stupid "features" that increase the attack surface.
I'm sure there's many more malicious scenarios you can imagine.
Everyone on here seems so keen for these self-driving cars to take over, but there's just so many avenues for abuse and our road laws are not set up to handle all the complications.
I'm probably not the strawman you thought you were talking to, but I'll bite. I'm nervous about the prospect of buggy/vulnerable self-driving programs, but I'd say I'm even less comfortable sharing the road with the dozens of texting drivers I see everyday, and the several drunk drivers I report each year, along with many more that I just don't see, and the multitudes who can't be bothered to use their turning signals or check blinds spots on the highway.
