Conversation:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17989553

In fact it'd be a distinct improvement on most of the ones around here. I think it should be compulsory.

I'm currently reading this article at home from January's issue of Wired (I've got a backlog of reading IRL). http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_autonomouscars/all/1

I'm all for autonomous vehicles. Between reckless drunks, reckless teens, reckless OAPs, and reckless eedjits of all ages texting and phoning while driving, self driving vehicles is a huge improvement. A few weeks ago, Google tested one of their vehicles by putting a blind man behind the wheel (with a police officer in the passenger seat and a cruiser escorting it for legal liability reasons) and had the car take him to the dry cleaners and picked up a bit to eat at a drive-thru restaurant then back home again.

As a motorcyclist I fully approve. Of course, the biggest hurdles to this advancing will likely be legal liability issues. What if an autonomous vehicle gets in a wreck? Who's responsible? The driver? The other driver? The car company? The software designer?

(Of course with a good "No Fault" insurance law, this wouldn't matter.)

Anyways, I welcome our new robot overlords!

I could get a car to drive me to the pub and back! Mind... would be even better if it were a driverless motorbike...

You used to hear stories of old blokes who'd take their horse and cart to the pub, get rat-arsed, then fall asleep on the cart while the horse took them back home. Sounds like the same kind of thing