This week at the 2019 American Physical Society March Meeting in Boston, Skanda Vivek will present his research... Vivek and his team found that even a small-scale hack, affecting only 10 percent of vehicles in Manhattan, could cause citywide gridlock and hinder emergency services. Based on these findings the team also developed a risk-mitigation strategy to prevent mass urban disruption from a few compromised vehicles.
The only people who want driverless vehicles appear to be the hucksters who want to sell them, and a relative handful of Koolaid drinkers.
1. In order to operate safely they will have large operational constraints (i.e., they'll move slower, require wider gaps in traffic, etc.) that will make them less attractive than conventional vehicles.
2. They will be prohibitively expensive.
3. The combination of #1 and #2 means they will appeal to such a narrow group of prospective buyers that nobody will want to mass-produce them for a general consumer market.