I think there are a lot more regulatory hurdles when going from a normal car to a self-driving one than from a horse to a car.
In a sense a horse is somewhat 'self-driving' in that an accident could be entirely due to the behaviour of said horse and so this would provide a strong impetus to move to a car which is fully under the driver's control.
Going to a self-driving car shifts back to a system that is not fully driver controlled and thus has to deal with all of the legal issues about who is culpable in the case of accidents and so forth.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 13.2 ms ] threadIn a sense a horse is somewhat 'self-driving' in that an accident could be entirely due to the behaviour of said horse and so this would provide a strong impetus to move to a car which is fully under the driver's control.
Going to a self-driving car shifts back to a system that is not fully driver controlled and thus has to deal with all of the legal issues about who is culpable in the case of accidents and so forth.