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Originally Posted by freebeard
...but mixed urban traffic will be... law abiding?
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Frankly, I don't care much about urban driving. I think the big problems will start to show up when those urbanite-designed and tested self-driving cars start trying to travel outside the confines of their urban sandboxes.
We've already seen instances of human drivers who've blindly followed their GPS into deserts, over cliffs, into rivers, and across bridges that obviously wouldn't carry the commercial trucks they were driving. That's what happens with just a small fraction (at least I hope it's small :-)) of the population dumb enough to blindly follow a machine's instructions. What happens when the follower is another machine (or part of the same one), and the blind obedience is built in?