The crippled Audi SQ5

As it may be observed, I am a big automotive fanatic. I follow Formula 1 instead of baseball (long live Ferrari), go to the racetrack instead of the beach and read about cars instead of doing my homework...sometimes. Anyways, one of the biggest topics for me is about autonomous cars and although I have brought it up previously, new evidence has finally begun to open a pandoras box to issues posed by autonomous cars.
This past weekend, right in time for the New York City Autoshow, a company decided to do a little bit of an experiment; drive from the west coast towards the NY autoshow. Now that in itself is impressive task because hell, even I wouldn't drive across the country. But they did it in an Audi SQ5 which must've been very relaxing and had a lot of punch in the road to overpass those pesky slow drivers and burn some rubber. But wait, there's more! The beautiful SQ5 was moving on its own, because it is autonomous. So you buy a perfectly asphalt-marking, road-griping, lean machine and retrofit it so it drives itself? Where's the logic in that? Apparently, Delphi found the logic
A few hiccups they encountered were that the car completely resisted going around a construction site and it's strict desire to drive at the posted speed limit. Yes, speed limits are posted there for "safety" but mostly so we don't have this huge cloud of smoke above us and because there's plenty of very stupid drivers, just look at any BMW driver, especially the blue ones. But driving at the limit can be especially dangerous if the flow of traffic demands for a higher speed. If everyone around you is going 65mph, to be modest, and you insist on keeping it under 45mph, boy are you looking for trouble. That is just asking to be cursed at, but the machine won't care anyways. But it poses threats such as causing confusion amongst other drivers who have to slow their speed and fight to change into the other lane while not a single jerk lets them go.
The first hiccup is what scares me the most. If this autonomous car wont go near constructions sites, then they are in for a surprise when it hops on the Pulaski Skyway. This is problematic because it is an instance where it refuses to move, requiring a manual override. What will the car do in such a case when everyone is going 55mph? Will it stop in the middle of Route 1&9? And what if the operator is fast asleep? Will it blast music until the person wakes up? Or what if the customer sends out for it (because I'm sure that would eventually be integrated. Your own car that picks you up)? Sure, a software update might try to correct it but again I stand strongly on the belief that some software update won't always do the right thing.
Besides, buying a fast car and not driving it to its full potential is like ordering lobster from Red Lobster and receiving it only to eat the small legs; useless.