Autonomous vehicles will be unleashed in urban environments. They will kill people in unacceptable scenarios and the industry will be forced to retreat as political and legal pressure mounts. Teleoperation won’t work. Operation of autonomous vehicles in urban environments without a trained safety driver will be severely restricted until there’s a major AGI breakthrough.
Thankfully, this is never going to happen in the fist place because politicians are smarter than technologists.
>Operation of autonomous vehicles in urban environments without a trained safety will be severely restricted
Again, this is never be allowed in the first place. It will remain restricted. European, Asian and African countries will make more use of autonomous public vehicles, in the form of trains, trams and busses, with a driver inside. The U.S. will get there by a different route: car pooling => minivan pooling and gradually up to private buses. This won't happen next year, or maybe not even in the next decade... but that's the future.