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1.HACKING

There is really no debate about this , there is sure going to be a lot of hacking in cars in the coming year.Most car manufacturers are starting to build self-driving cars which are fully controlled by software.As a programmer I have a rule I keep in mind always "whatever can be built by man can be infiltrated by another man,no system is completely guarded".


A system can be secured to a point where only the close authors have access to the bypass.

So saying there would be a lot of hacks is far fetched, as any possible hack can be corrected almost immediately. Plus, these onboard computers are running locally and not necessarily running off a network, unless when running system updates.

2.PROBLEM WITH THE LAW

There is going to be a whole lot of problem with the law.For example when a driverless car violates a traffic rule .Who would be blamed or prosecuted ,the car maker or the car user , or the car ? . I hope provisions are being made to handle such cases.

Self Driving cars don't run traffic lights, that just can not happen, unless there is a hardware malfunction, in which case the owner should be at fault for not addressing that in a timely manner after being alerted by the system.

3.LIMITED QUALIFIED MECHANICS

Can't argue with this in Nigeria. Can't argue at all

4.CONFUSED CARS

Yup !, another problem.What happens in the event of an impending accident.What decision does the car take , does it decide to drive into a wall or a pole .What if there is no wall but a river ,does it decide to take the risk of killing the occupant and saving the life of a crowd of people its about to drive into,or does it decide to save the occupant and kill innocent people.Confusion everywhere

Still safer than cars being driven my humans in my opinion, but I guess we'll have to wait on the statistics to determine this. Just like how people don't like flying even though statistically, it's the safest means of travel

5. EVEN MORE CONFUSION

What happens when a traffic light goes off ?.Latest autonomous and semi-autonomous cars depends on traffic lights using sensors to know when to stop and move at junctions .So imagine a traffic light goes off due to a malfunction ......the disaster...... which could be easily averted when a human is driving .....

A traffic light going off is synonymous with there being no traffic light at all, in which case the car would have to fall back to proximity sensors and cameras as per normal driving.