Driving Miss Daisy

I'm curious, at what robot level would you say an anthropomorphic robot would have to be to drive a ground car on roads? How about off road? Cycles? Hover and flying vehicles? (I limit it to anthropomorphic simply because they would operate vehicles designed for biologicals, something that a standard bodied robot would likely have difficulty with).<br /><br />Now what if the vehicle itself is robotic?<br /><br />My own opinion would be that it would take at least a level 4 anthropomorphic robot to drive a ground car on roads. Their programming would be sophisticated enough to handle a stable and easy to drive vehicle in the well regulated street environment as a function of its mission. I think it would take at least a level 5 anthropomorphic to drive either more sophisticated vehicles or on more challenging terrain. Perhaps a lower leveled robot could be programmed with a mission as a driver, and all of its functions would support that mission, but would it make sense to spend anthropomorphic type money on a chauffeur only?<br /><br />When the vehicle itself becomes the robot, it's mission changes to purely transportation. If that is all it is designed to do, I think a level 2 robot is sufficient as a minimum in every case. The only requirement for such a low level robot would be an up to date map of the area it is expected to traverse and the sensors to detect and avoid obstacles. Of course, higher level robot vehicles would be better able to modify its route as necessary.<br /><br />On a side note, what level is w00t, and is he capable of safely piloting a ground car to the local spacer club?<br />