>There should probably be a specific, complex and comprehensive test for autonomous vehicles
Maybe we should start with a specific, complex and comprehensive test for human drivers first.
And to build on the sentiment of this thread, every driver should finance their own test course to practice on before "subsidizing" their learning on public roads.
In the UK, for motorbike tests one does a computer based test, then practices with a company on a private off-road test area. One must pass a test then before being able to practices under instruction on public roads. Once sufficiently practiced one can take the test.
Basically what you propose?
As for comprehensive testing - I think the UK car and motorbike tests are quite good, not comprehensive, but they demonstrate a general ability across a range of skills. Humans can be expected to act relatively consistently (in such things), the test must be more comprehensive when treating a system that you can't expect to have innate consistency.
Maybe we should start with a specific, complex and comprehensive test for human drivers first.
And to build on the sentiment of this thread, every driver should finance their own test course to practice on before "subsidizing" their learning on public roads.