The Afterlife - a possible scenario

[floo]

Au contraire, human-driven cars are the cause of thousands of road casualties each year.  In a hundred or so years time, people will look back in disbelief that we allowed non-professional drivers in privately owned cars onto the roads with all their dispositions for drink and drugs and texting.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm! But is technology as good as human comprehension? Sat Navs are a case in point, they are fine until they get it spectacularly wrong!
 

[Nearly Sane]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm! But is technology as good as human comprehension? Sat Navs are a case in point, they are fine until they get it spectacularly wrong!

Have you some citation that compares them to human error?

[Owlswing]

Have you some citation that compares them to human error?

I'm sure that more drivers get lost by getting their passenger to map-read that do so by following a Sat-Nav!

[Sriram]

Some cars don't need a driver, Sriram.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/401562/pathway-driverless-cars-summary.pdf

Not really!  Its a different kind of driver that drives those cars. In fact, its a whole system of satellites and computers and stuff that needs to do that.......all of which have been designed and made by intelligent humans.