Why build cars that can drive themselves?

If cars drive themselves, why build them? Why sell them? What makes one any better than the next? Why buy this one instead of that one? Price? Interior amenities? A reduced propensity to crash electronically and thus physi­cally? And when the crashes come, they’ll be wholly the carmakers’ fault. Maybe we should be asking brand reps a different question: Why create cars that shift the liability from drivers onto yourselves?

Very thought provoking article in April 2014 Car and Driver magazine http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/april-2014-this-month-in-car-and-driver-magazine-toc