[mykroar]

“Now I can drive a little faster and be a little less attentive, because I know my Volvo will stop itself if necessary.”

This times 1M. I work auto claims and you can't imagine how many people will blame their rear sensors for not going off (or saying the person wasn't there because they didn't). Except, of course, they were there or we wouldn't be talking. Or the people that only use their rear cameras to back. I can't wait until we start getting the claims from the cars that parallel park themselves, but fail.

[Fresh Wind]

I’ll bet you’re really looking forward to the Googlemobile self-driving car.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

“I can’t wait until we start getting the claims from the cars that parallel park themselves, but fail.”

They had a self-parking Lexus on an episode of Top Gear. It took FOUR ATTEMPTS for it to replicate a half-assed parallel parking job by a human.

[wbill]

Mrs WBill's car has a rear sensor and an attention-getter that beeps politely when something is in the way. It's great for backing up and finding a curb, or avoiding carelessly parked bicycles.

But that's about all of the driving I'd want a car to do for me.

This sounds like a bad, bad idea.