In my (I’m sure unpopular) view, the best application of technology would be in making human drivers safer by using technology to eliminate tailgating, speeding, making lane changes safer, and of course the parallel parking systems. Enhancements are beneficial and they for the most part, don’t involve trying to sense the chaos and figure out what to do automatically. Summer is road construction season, dig up the street, put up barricades large or small, sense this and deal with it? I don’t think so. People will think that they can go along for self driving ride and ignore their surroundings just like they now do with simple texting or internet searches. To get a mixed mode self driving car to do this safely under all the road, pedestrian, and traffic conditions is not reasonable and the techies involved simply don’t want to deal with their potential failure and huge liabilities so they don’t talk about it. Have the cell phone manufacturers or the cell networks taken any responsibility for the death’s and injuries caused by using their products while driving? No. It is a fact that both the phones/tablets and the networks know when a cell phone/tablet etc. is moving and could disable message display and any other interactions until movement has stopped. They are liable but no one has so far, called them on this. AT&T I think it was, used to offer as an optional extra, the ability to disable a moving wireless device. The technology is there, the will and laws aren’t. Same mess for dream world, self driving cars. For cars, I suspect the lawyers will jump on this fabulous opportunity for new cash.