Ok so how much does all that radar and laser range finders cost? The idea of a car is cheap AFFORDABLE transportation. That stupid Google car probably costs 100k. Whose going to repair that stuff? What if a range finder goes out driving on a suburban road that has kids on it? This is just fantasy mental masturbation.
Cameras and laser sensors are cheap. The cutting-edge technology here has nothing to do with the hardware and everything to do with the software.
“What if a range finder goes out driving on a suburban road that has kids on it? This is just fantasy mental masturbation.”
What if the brakes/steering/etc on a normal car goes out driving on a suburban road that has kids on it? Regardless, it would be painfully simple to program these cars to pull over and come to a stop if something malfunctions.
Like I said in my original post, so many people are worried about the one-in-a-million deaths that this might cause and don't worry about the one-in-a-thousand deaths that human drivers cause. It is psychology.