I seriously wonder if self driving cars will really ever happen given how little new car technology is absorbed particularly in less wealthy countries (ie countries in Africa).<p>Given Africa&#x27;s rate of population growth a random person picked in the future is probably going to be from that continent. I have serious doubts poor countries will have the infrastructure and&#x2F;or resources needed to support self driving machines.<p>That is future less than law abiding hacker (the author&#x27;s term.. not mine) could probably avoid problems like this by moving to less wealthy nations.