i think the answer your looking for here is "insurance". we know that humans are bad at properly assessing risk, but insurance companies aren't. if you can get insurance for our AI driven car (and why not, likely we'll end up in a word where the AI is much safer than mere humans) then it not that much of an issue.

of course you still need to convince people that they are safe and should be allowed on the roads, but that's what 'security theatre' is for (looking at you airport security mechanisms!)

fair comment, but surely if we intend to use AI driven cars then other changes need to happen? traffic lights broadcast their state to AI-cars (in fact that could be useful for human drivers too), construction-worker signs have small units attached to them to broadcast information and alternate-route information to the AI driven cars? (yes, yes, "but the hackers!" they'll cry. come-on certainly security is not a new problem for us)

but certainly things will improve over time. to be honest I'm surprised at the negativity in the comments on this article.

sure AI can't handle all scenarios, and it is worse when only some cars are AI controlled, but I would expect there to be 'partial' implementations first.

what about motorways that are designed or updated specifically for AI vehicles? for example the AI does "see" the traffic light, it receives a signal from a traffic light controller or some other system.
what about roads where it is limited to only AI vehicles (then they can all talk to each other and you don't have the human drivers behaving unpredictably)

wow really interesting, i'm gonna check it out.

my favourite part is how they are intentionally trying to piss-off/harass criminals. sure not all of them will be for serious crimes and i assume just because you had a mug shot taken doesn't necessarily mean you were convicted... but still, there's gotta be some nut-jobs in that mix and i'm sure some of them know how to either:

1) hack stuff or
2) make bombs

wait is that a bomb joke? can i be arrested for saying that?

when you read TFA, it actually just sounds like he was screwing around and the child porn was more like "this'll get the dude in trouble" rather than "I have a private collection because i'm a pedo".

Either way, the dude was really stupid and deserves to get jail time for it.

edit: changed the word "article" to TFA cause that's the way it's done here ;)