Drunk driver slept as his Tesla drove itself down highway at 70 mph, Calif. cops say

I don't buy that the technology will be advanced enough to where the car can go 100% without human input in 10 years. 25 maybe (big maybe) but 10 is way too short of a timeframe.

That being said, I have my doubts that it'll be legal to be intoxicated or otherwise incapacitated (asleep, high, etc.) in the driver's seat of an SDC. Common wisdom would dictate, considering how often current self-driving cars revert to manual control on their own for seemingly no reason that one needs to be able to retake control of the vehicle in the event that the system decides it can't or doesn't want to drive anymore, especially if one is going 70+ MPH on the highway and all of a sudden the car's seconds away from smacking the center divide or careening off the shoulder into the ditch.

Source: I was in an SDC just a couple of months ago and it kept asking the driver to drive on smooth, flat roads with absolutely no other cars around several times during the 90 minutes I was riding shotgun,

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