It will be many many years before self driving cars become widespread and safe. The problems associated with a self driving are several order of magnitude higher than developing auto pilots for airplanes which people like to use for comparison.
In addition to the software not responding correctly to environmental factors such as road design, lighting conditions, snow, rain, wind blown debris and erratic village drivers, there is also the problem of hacking that must be solved before self driving cars are common place.
The computer revolution is approximately, 60 years old now and industry still cannot prevent hackers from attacking critical infrastructure 100% of the time. I, for one, do not want to die at the hands of a pimply-faced teenage nerd!
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