[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by polak

I am curious as to what the plan would be if there was some sort of catastrophic failure with the computer and sensors that drive the car?

Say we replace all of deerfoot traffic with self-driving cars. It only takes one failure in one car to cause a big accident. Are we going to expect people to be paying attention at all times and take over? That's not going to happen. Hell first thing I do with my self driving car is go pub hopping!

How is that different than now?
As it stands right now you've got 100% of cars being controlled by people with slower reaction times than a computer controlled car.

I computer controlled car breaks and gets in an accident, the other 99.99% react more quickly than a person would and the severity of the accident/delay is greatly reduced. That's the point of self driving cars, they are better at avoiding accidents than we are.