Comment False equivalence (Score 1) 364
A bunch of innocent flower children in the road? No a more likely question is what should happen with a violent mob of people? The real problem is when 20 to 100 people decide they want to fork something up and you're there. So that's why I don't like the idea of a car that disables itself, because not going to determine if these are malicious people or not.
Years ago I had a group of 100+ drunk college party kids stop my car because I was on "their road" and decide to rock it and smash it up. I let them have their fun and I didn't run down the adults in front of my car. But what would have happened if they did that to a horse? And where I live now there is sometimes gun fire and gang fights in Holyoke Massachusetts on streets I drive to work. I have my doubts about the kind intentions of these gang members and mobs.
The real question should be what does it do when a gang want's to stop your car? Will there be an override mode? And do you think any politicians car will stop for a group who has bad intentions for them? Heck, the politicians car will probably aim for the softest looking people. So we'll need politician mode too right?