My point is, this will simply lead to more accidents, until such time as ALL cars are driverless and the algorithms are well tested/established. In the meantime, regular drivers will be demonized for making good emergency maneuvers, which happen to cause accidents because the driverless algorithms have no way to account for EVERY possibility from a regular driver.

A perfect example is the recent Air France crash. Here, automation was insufficient, and even the extensive training that pilots go through was insufficient to prevent the accident. The only real solution there is to better train the pilots… and that’s in an environment with already-significant training. In the US, driver training sucks… so this won’t happen, and we will simply have more problems because of it… especially as dumb-drivers become more dependent on tech (as they are already becoming… ala GPSes telling people to drive into lakes, and dumb drivers doing so).

Bottom line, the solution to reducing accidents is better training, not electronic gadgetry. And this needs to be enforced with proper re-training when drivers make dumb mistakes, not tickets, fines, and other idiocy like “speed kills”.