The reasons why I believe driverless cars must be another hoax aimed to attack the private rights of American citizens
I believe Google wants to build and sell driverless cars like I believe a lawn mower repair shop wants to build space shuttles.
The up front concern would be how to establish that a driverless car is safer than a human operated vehicle. Generally accepted into the conversation and into conventional wisdom is the premise stating a driverless car does not have to be perfect. It only needs to be better than a human operated vehicle. The burden of proof to establish driverless cars as being safer cannot possibly be established in isolation. How many nations' oil reserves must be wasted to establish five nines for a driverless car? Would five nines be responsible for a increase in the fatalities? And then we learn the hard way that more than six nines are required to be safer than human operated vehicles? Would the roads become so populated with empty driverless cars during this benchmark operation that it creates conditions that nobody can drive because of the road tests?
It is obvious when Google states how their vehicle will only need to be better than human drivers, then Google is far more interested in collecting data about human behavior. Their case to build a driverless car is mostly a trick to establish a phony baloney moral equivalency how Google is like wiper blades and seat belts. Their clear and immediate intent is to create laws that require all vehicles to install the Google technology for monitoring.
We already know that Google is hostile to the American citizen's right to bear arms. Does it surprise anyone to realize that Google will re-purpose horrible tragedies like auto fatalities for the benefit to monitor your private activities at times when you turn off your computer and then travel without your android?
Considering how Google does not like you to carry a weapon, how many times has Google Navigator directed you to pass through neighborhoods that you clearly have no business to be? Now consider how easy it must be to stop a driverless car from the outside. Does a hostile person simply need to step out into the road and stand there because the vehicle will not ever hit him? If your vehicle can be stopped in a dangerous area and if Google doesn't want you to have the means or to have the rights to defend yourself, then their driverless car is not a good idea.
Any technology that improves the safety of a driverless car over human operated vehicles is a technology that can then be incorporated into the real cars. And this would make the human operated vehicles into being the safer option again.