Robocars - Autonomous Drive, Self-driving, Driver-less cars

gree with this; I'd say dealing with automation is nowadays the biggest single human factors problem in aviation,

My take is given right now what we need is a lot more data I'd leave off the "comfort" and give the impression that drivers and pilots alike are in full control. If a driver does not really know when they are in control they must assume that they are always in control and must be alert, use all their senses (including tracking all the vehicles on the road, making a number of predictions on the characters driving those vehicles and what their potential next moves might possibily be to put one in harm's way etc.) all all times. The question, of course, arises: "how does one know when in robotic mode to suspend autonomy and handover control to the driver-- who at the instant might have thought they had control but did not?" Since we can easily track the drivers pose and head position as well as their affective state, heart and respiratory rate, I conjuecture that we could probably find some appropriate conditions where autonomy is distrupted and control is passed fully to the driver.
The control driver in this model has nothing to get bored of. In fact, I might even suggest that they are kept under higher cognitive demand than a driver in a normal sedan. As some pilot, resp. cruise, modus proves itself "better than humans" one can then enable them to be deployed without the "guessing game".. so over time more and more features could be "enabled"-- resp. the control game disabled.