Darpa & the Self Driving Car

Here's an interesting article on DARPA and the self driving car. I keep hearing rumors about this. Highways designed to drive your car for you, cars that take over when you get behind the wheel, cars that interact with other cars avoiding collisions and so forth. On the surface it sounds like a good idea, but seems to me has way to many problems with it.

1) Daily update of the java script will cause the car to shut down

2) Daily updated of the virus protection plan will cause the car to shut

3) Virus

4) It will need a redundant system to back up incase malfunction

5 It will need a redundant system to back up the updates

In short the minute by minute updating cars will have to do will pretty much keep us all moribund and at home.

Plus I would miss this . . . .