Autonomous and semiautonomous vehicles are making serious progress — and the mobile communications capabilities of those cars are also rapidly growing, perhaps too fast for their own security good — but they are going to run head on into a massive obstacle: human trust.
It's a big deal for someone to let go of the steering wheel and brake and trust a computer to make all of the right calls.
(Heck, I am still trembling from when I taught our 16-year-old daughter to take over the wheel.
And you're asking me to trust the same operating system that crashes at least five times a week? Really?)Two recent developments both increase trust and rip it apart.
And off we go.