RichardPrice
These things still require a huge ground based control presence

The Global Hawk is completely autonomous, the whole flight from take off, fly, to land is all done by a pre-designed route using GPS, its only takes a couple clicks of the mouse on the ground. and I have seen video of this land and its better then people can do and fog means nothing.
Most UAV's like the Predator or X-45 require pilots but they are on the ground instead, but the Global Hawk is automated.

RP
Would you get into a car that had no driver, yet was speeding at 80mph down a freeway?

maybe, it depends, First I would have to know how it works, and see evidence of it being reliable, I know future cars will have an auto-driver type of a button and that will be a good day, not only less accidents, but it would be nice to be able to get home after being wasted in your own vehicle, or for road trips (never get lost, roadtrips then might actually be fun and be considered a stressless vacation), or if your just to tired.

FredT
No more than say people would accept a Ohio SSBN that had no crew.

even I don't like the sound of that. But the X-45 for instance, the bomb droping in 100% ground controled. Not matter how advanced your new AI system is I would never give it control of the weapons payload.