I am predicting that, once computers are doing the driving, there will be a lot more sex in cars

Kirk says that people will not be able to respond in time when the system fails because of being distracted.

Self-driving vehicles will lead to a rise in car sex, according to a new study.
People will be more likely to eat, sleep and engage in on-the-road hanky-panky when robot cars become the new normal, according to research published in the most recent issue of the journal Annals of Tourism Research.
"you can see that in the long association of automobiles and sex that’s represented in just about every coming-of-age movie. It’s not a big leap,” said Scott Cohen, a director of research for the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at the University of Surrey in England. 
Along with highway hookups, the report also predicts that autonomous vehicles will put prostitution on wheels.

Plenty of people have been doing that for years, and self-driving cars will just make it more convenient. In total, 60 percent of Americans have already had sex in a car, according to the report, which notes sex in self-driving cars will be widespread by the 2040s.