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Ten years later: How to avoid dying in a driverless car crash
Update your software frequently. Don't use cheap firewalls, choose the more reliable ones.
Don't use laptop or cell phone in the car, their electromagnetic frequencies may interfere with the car driving system. For extra safety, turn off the radio.
Don't drive after rain or in fog. Water may get into circuits, causing hardware failure in a dangerous situation.
Don't drive in the rain. A lightning close to you car may disrupt your GPS system or car driving system.
Don't drive in the first snowy day. The optical recognition system may not be fully adjusted yet.
When crossing a time-zone boundary, be ready to manually override the car navigation in case of a software bug.
Avoid the roads with human drivers, cyclicts, pedestrians, or where animals appear. The software does not always recognize them perfectly.
What? Teleportation FTW!
Twenty years later: How to avoid dying during teleportation: Turn off your electronic implants, because their signals may interfere with the scanning device. Don't teleport in a rainy day; a lightning in a wrong time may disrupt the data transfer. Etc.
It seems like if your car's driving computer is capable of connecting to the Internet, it's already badly designed.
I'd have to disagree. An optional feature to update a street database and possibly be notified of critical updates to the algorithm (when other modules are found to be killing people, say) seems like a wise inclusion.
Also, live traffic data to use the available road-space more efficiently. My GPS does that already, and will divert me around traffic jams when there are available side roads, but will stay on the main route when the side-roads as just as bad.