There is a scene from Total Recall, a 1990 action movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger set in the future, where Arnie jumps into a 'Johnnie's' taxi to escape some bad guys but he is faced with a robotic driver who asks him for an address to go to. Arnie simply wants to escape, and can't give an address, so he has to destroy the robot driver and take control himself. Like so many of the ideas of Sci-Fi movies from the last century, we are beginning to see how this kind of situation might affect us in the 21st century.
Although driverless cars have been discussed and in the working programs of companies like Google for years, 2016 might be the year that the…