I personally would not feel comfortable driving around with my kids in a vehicle in a lane next to an automated vehicle.
I feel the same way about manual vehicles. ; )
I worry about the automatic breaking systems that have started to come out.
I can imagine a lot of rear end collisions from those
I could just imagine the computer short circuiting from tin whiskers and the movie Runaway Car (1997) being experienced by those poor saps.
In Halting State by Charles Stross, driving has been outsourced. There's a camera, and some guy drives the car remotely. Now THAT'S scary.