3 reasons to fear self-driving cars (even if they're perfectly safe)

When technologists meet up to talk about driverless cars, they get all dewey-eyed about the wonders ahead: A dramatic reduction in traffic deaths. Time saved, more convenience, less stress. But Paul Saffo, the California futurist, told attendees at a car technology conference in Mountain View on Monday that, like with any new technology, there will be bad stuff too. When you don't need to drive, you don't even need windows. And some driverless car prototypes, he noted, don't have them.