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I think that it will be a very long time before we see self-driving cars without manual controls.
For reasons of liability the human driver is ultimately responsible for vehicle safety and needs to be ready to take back control at any time to avoid accidents. I believe that cars will display a statement to that effect and the driver will need to agree to this before self-driving mode can be engaged. Despite this I foresee that since the auto manufacturer has big pockets they will be sued whenever an accident occurs, regardless of whether or not the accident was unavoidable even if a person was driving.
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