Originally Posted by
tyrion
I believe those who seem to oppose this technology hang their argument on this:
A human driver will be behind the wheel, but only to intervene in case of emergency.
As long as that driver exists, the car is not fully autonomous. I believe such cars will be tested without the driver sometime this year. The detractors of the tech can't bring themselves to say this won't happen because they would likely be wrong. So the spin off into tangents like being attacked by highwaymen.