Requiring AI To Get A Driver’s License For Legally Driving A Self-Driving Car

Lance Eliot
12 min readJun 5, 2019

Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Insider

Clever mock-up of a driver’s license for a self-driving car

Some teenagers complain about the gauntlet they need to confront when seeking to become a licensed driver.

I’d heard scuttlebutt among some teenagers at my children’s school that maybe there was a kind of conspiracy going on, in which adults were scheming to keep kids from driving cars. Rumors were that only a tiny percentage of teens that passed the licensing requirements would actually get anointed with a license.

I mulled over this theory and found out that by-and-large most teens do get their driver’s licenses (assuming they take things seriously), and in terms of the licensing roadblocks trying to keep them from doing so, well, it sure seems prudent to make sure that anyone licensed to drive is properly qualified and ready to do so. That’s not a conspiracy, that’s just plain sensible, I’d say.

When you consider the act of driving a car, it becomes apparent that there are two major elements of certification about the matter.

There is the aspect of ensuring that the human driver is ready, able, and formally certified to drive, which is achieved by the driver’s license or permit, plus there is the need to make sure that the car itself is also properly certified.

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Lance Eliot

Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a renowned global expert on AI, successful startup founder, global CIO/CTO, , was a top exec at a major Venture Capital (VC) firm.