Here's another reason, you may have seen it already.<p>There are going to be a non-trivial number of corner cases that will fake out autonomous vehicle situational awareness. This one is a false lane departure alert, triggered by a combination of shadows and repaving artifacts. The actual lane marker is the yellow line in the lane barrier's shadow. If the car were autonomous, would it have reacted in error?<p><a href="http://imgur.com/a/KnsXU" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/a/KnsXU</a><p>Basically, fewer people will die in accidents as a result of autonomous driving. I do believe that. But it will be a different set of people than would have died without it. That will take a lot of legal wrangling to work through.
> we stepped out of the car to take a photo, leaving the keys in the car, and this super capable intelligent car locked us out!<p>Somewhat off topic, but this is what I dislike about most products designed so far in the third millennium. "cool", "sexy" approaches to simple problems often provide little value, make the user feel inert, pointless, and out-of-the loop. They make every user more vulnerable to emerging circumstances.