You probably misunderstood what I meant by &#x27;handoff&#x27;. It refers to the range of programmed interactions between an automated system and a human, for example, a warning light on the dash is a handoff. A warning sound or an automatic request for user action is a handoff. Pulling over and shutting down is a handoff. You say it&#x27;s a bad idea. It would be a very very bad idea to build systems that do not have these responses programmed into them. It would be like throwing an exception without any exception handlers.<p>If you haven&#x27;t already, I highly recommend listening to the Econ Talk podcast for much more depth from someone who has been thinking about these kind of problems for years (I can&#x27;t really do it justice in a HN comment).