I've already retired :)

Ha, let's hope so, as I suspect Citroen have a bigger legal fund. :) (They're both horrid little things anyway - where's the V8?)

Nope, it runs on petrol (er, gas :P )

Mummy knows best - eat your cheese up!

Oh yes, I've seen it. The lack of a Linux port is one reason I'm not that interested TBH.

is Oolite. Good old Elite but brought into the 21st Century - free and open source and modable. Awesome!

...from Start to Finnish.

Indeed. The fact is most drivers are pants, and autonomous cars will undoubtedly save many lives and avoid many crashes. I just wanted to put this in some sort of context.

Well up to a point. The comparison is with 'normal' drivers, American drivers at that. As far as I know driver training in the US is fairly basic compared to many countries, and TFA doesn't actually mention 'professionally trained' drivers at all unlike the /. summary. I would contest that a 'real' advanced driver, say a UK police Class 1 driving certificate holder, will out-perform a robot any day, not because they are quicker to react but because the skills and experience they have gathered over years of dedicated training and practice would give them the ability to predict problems and prevent incidents, rather than relying on their robotically quick response times to cope with a developing problem the advanced human driver would have already avoided.

What could possibly go wrong?

The same way there isn't a planet called Pluto!
But it is true, the good old Brontosaurus is now known as the Apatosaurus.

...if Uranus has asteroids. He can give you some cream for it.

We ain't scared of Martians! We've got bacteria and Slim Whitman.

Think of the Plasmodium!