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Aside from a car parking itself, driving long distance quite more than I like to, I often wish cars would be programmable so that you could just sit, relax and arrive at your destination refreshed and ready to go, instead of red eyed, tense and exhausted.
I do not believe that there will ever be a truly, fully-automatic self-driving car, that can be counted on to safely and consistently get you from point A to point B without requiring some occasional human input. There will always be a need for a human being to be paying attention, and to be prepared to take over where the computer errs.
In fact, I think that any attempt at a self-driving car is always going to be more dangerous. As it is now, when you travel by car, you expect to have to be paying attention all the time. The process of driving the car keeps your attention engaged on this task. In an automated car, I think the “driver” will usually not be paying attention, and when a dangerous situation arises, that requires human correction, the driver will not be paying enough attention to provide that correction before a serious mishap occurs.