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@Oliver Schick
On self-driving cars, the real question for me is whether we should even have them, and my answer to that is a resounding 'no'. People imagine these techno-fantasist futures as sketched out by rubbish 20th-century science fiction writers, but that's not what would happen if they became available, worked well, and were widely adopted. They would cause a further decline in physical activity (whose negative impact would far outstrip the pain and heartache caused by traffic crashes at the moment), undermine the viability of public transport, push aside the active modes, cause an even more vastly increased consumption of finite resources, including vastly-increased road-building, and make a huge contribution to the further disorganisation of our world. Their use would probably further increase global injustice, too. Do not want.
Of course, once you've accepted that they're inevitable or even think that they're a good thing, then you can deal with those small, inconsequential questions that are mostly just unsolvable moral dilemmas, i.e. you can't make a decision that is right. Whichever path you choose is wrong, in various different ways.