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: Has anyone actually looked into the legal aspects of this?  I'm no lawyer,
: but it seems quite likely to me that if the car is pulled over for any
: reason,
: the "driver" will end up in jail (at least for a day or two) and the vehicle
: may be seized.  And while CMU would probably be able to get it back
: eventually,
: it could take months (not to mention the unpleasantness for the driver).

:    Robert

I wonder about this . . . one reasonable defence would be that there
was someone sitting in the driving seat, driving the car, but that 
the car had such sophisticaed assistance systems that the driver
need never actually touch any controls.

At what point does the car take over the driving function?? Cars can 
do a lot of things to help the driver, such as automatic transmission.
Is there a particular set of actions which legally defines "driving"
---e.g. steering, acceleration control, et cetera. Or is the car allowed
to do as many functions as it is capable of. At what point does
"assistance" become "control"??

	Hey nonny no,

		Colin Johnson.
		Department of Mathematics.
		Napier University, Edinburgh.