On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 14:32:20 +0200, Opinicus
> wrote:

>On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:14:18 -0000, "Ophelia" >
>wrote:
>
>>That raises interesting questions (or would do if it happened here).
>>Is a driverless car obliged to stop if asked to do so by a police
>>officer in uniform; and, who can be prosecuted if it doesn't?"
>
>The interesting questions that driverless cars raise are legion. For
>example imagine, in order to take evasive action in an emergency, a
>driverless car has to choose between plowing into a lampost, an
>oncoming car, a store front, a little old lady crossing the street,
>two minority group kids standing by the curb, one non-minority group
>kid standing by the curb, etc etc etc. Which does it go for? Or does
>it just stop dead in its tracks and get crushed by the out-of-control
>dump track immediately behind it?
>
>Driverless cars are Stupid Technology.

They'd work fine if all vehicles are driverless but not when in mixed
traffic and among pedestrians.