Self-Driving Me Crazy

My friend at work said that he thought he saw a driverless car go by him on the freeway last week. He said the car went by him pretty fast and it looked like no one was in the driver’s seat. That made me think.  On these driverless cars, if there IS someone behind the wheel, and the car speeds by us and the guy behind the wheel is like reading a magazine or something, how will we know whether this is a self-driving car or if the driver is just being careless? Or asleep? Will it be that guy’s duty to roll down his window and tell us it’s a self-driving car? Should we demand he hold his hands up through his open sun roof to indicate the car is driving itself?

Let’s take this one step at a time. Maybe make each potential owner of self-driving car be required to have some prior experience - like having maybe a self-cleaning oven or a player piano. One step at a time…