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RE: Uber May Not Be Meeting The Safety Regulations for Self-Driving Cars
When done properly and regulated to high standards of safety, it can work. The potential is tremendous, despite the risk. The benefits far outweigh the risk, but there are still concerns among many people.
I saw a related problem that caused 4 deaths in the US recently. It seemed a tourist was driving a rented car, and using a sat nav. this told him to make a U-turn, which was illegal at that point. He made the turn, and was hit by a large 4x4. If that had been a driverless car using the sat nav, who would have been at fault?
That was tragic. Now that can actually be prevented by driverless car systems, since they don't rely on GPS alone. They have many types of sensors do detect things that humans cannot see or know is coming. That is in theory of course, but when applied to actual real world situations they often have a high degree of success. The Uber incident is the exception and we know now there may have been neglect on Uber's part.
There is always neglect with a few cars, and that is the worry. At least with a driver there is chance to control failures.