The main contradiction of autonomous vehicles on our roads is they are too polite to humans. Under the assumption of nearby human drivers and pedestrians, autobots become very lawsuit constrained, extremely polite and careful to the point of ineffectiveness.
A lightweight Johny Cab is a slow moving robot around the transit center full of humans, very safe and very slow. But when human passengers and cargo customers want service, they want humans out of the picture.
So, here is the fundamental, the distance between the human and an efficient autobot may be a blue line, a traffic indicator on the road. When they collide, who apportions cause and reimbersement. Can we require all humans to obey the right of way at times for autobots?
The answer?
I supose all autobots must be considered remote controlled. There must exist a communication channel to a licensed human operator, remotely situated. So we get a traffic control situation, like the airlines. Give the autobots representative human drivers.
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