“Full Self Driving cars are going to be a godsend for people that can no longer drive safely, or at all. Allowing them to get out safely.”
That may be the case for the future but the current self-driving technology is not a substitute for the mental and physical decline of the human driver e.g. the decrease of fine motor skills, decision making ability, dexterity, etc. I’ve ridden in my daughter’s Tesla with auto pilot “on” and the driver has to be very clued in to what is going on with the car, and the driving conditions. For example, if there are no white lines on the sides of the driving lane, auto driving features do not work so good. Another: blinking yellow lights at intersections and auto drive turns off. Woops. And, of course, the driver needs to be able to navigate through the rather complicated systems in place e.g. the video control screen to operate the car, and to engage and disengage the auto drive features. Auto drive is pretty good for highway driving but not a substitute for a human operated car in local traffic conditions (like in TV). Self-driving cars may evolve into more intuitive driving machines but that’s a ways off. We will see.
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