re: U.S. tells Google computers can qualify as drivers

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The only problem, is that computers frick-up as well

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not as much as the other option

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they crash,

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so far they've only been crashed into, by a non-computer

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they can be hacked

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this is a concern, but I believe that any car with onstar can be hacked right now.

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Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely

More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.

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so it wouldn't be a new developement

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The only problem, is that computers frick-up as well, they crash

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Your laptop doesn't have nearly the failsafes that will be required of self-driving cars. Plus all of the software that you install on your PC has a big affect on crashes. I think that I'm a well above average driver (though I figure most people think of themselves that way). I don't text and drive. I use my blinkers all of the time. I always obey the 2 second rule when behind another driver. I still trust computers to drive better than I can. By a wide margin. I can't wait for self driving cars, assuming that the Fedgov allows drunkards to use them. Unfortunately, I suspect that bullshite rules will be implemented to protect police departments that rely on DUIs as well as the cab unions/Ubers of the world.

I do agree that hacks could frick shite up. But all new cars have computers as is, so I don't think that's much of a change.

I also have a theory that the more money you make, the less you're involved in crashes.

I have no way to quantify this, though.

Lower IQ is a given.