[DanEC]

I'm a little bit with Strictlypersonl on this - I see people doing stupid, dangerous things every day in my commute to and from work. While I'm sure autonomous vehicles can and will manage to do some unintelligent things, I doubt they will rival many of the brain-dead or just plain risk loving drivers we cross paths with every day. But what will be a real mystery is in a multi-autonomous vehicle situation when each one is going through it's risk/ethical/monetary/human injury hierarchy analysis and making decisions without input on the decisions the other vehicles are making at the same time and which may be in conflict with the others. I guess it's not much of a stretch that at some point they will have all of the vehicles communicating constantly with each other and coordinating emergency actions with each other. At that point I guess they will be deciding amongst themselves if a Democrat is more important than a Republican, or an engineer more important than a teacher, or a 30 year old more valuable to society than a 70 years old, etc.