You cite, beyond attacking my person and making metophor's you can't back up, that:
A) progress stops for no one (unless "no one" gets congress and senate on their side while also influencing local politics.) Remember how the electric car arrived decades late because Elon Musk was the right guy at the right time to make it happen despite intervention?
B) The number of traffic fatalities is currently "A" number. Once you begin integrating a product that drives itself it will become "another" number.
Time will tell what this will be and we may be sorry for testing it. That sorrow will mean just everything to the people who lost their lives in the process.
Can you honestly tell me that no one will be hurt while using self-driving cars in interstate environments?
What if the car detects a false-positive for "time to stop" and causes the human driver behind it to impact?
That is all this generation of self-driving cars seems to boast, is it not? "They stop when no other car would".
Well not every other car, just the ones without people ready to press the brakes.
This is a people vs machine argument, and I just don't think the machine is ready to hold life in it's hands.
(beyond the rhetoric I honestly don't, but let's pretend this is a speech to the jury of ignorants in charge of proclaiming if the car manufacturer is innocent when something goes wrong).
I don't feel the need to keep bullshitting (I would love a self driving car), but I feel I have proven that this is indeed a decade(s) out thing.
Furthermore, I REALLY do have to go back to "progress stops for no one" and re-cite "The people who used to advertise cigarettes have to make a living after all".
Those people are damn good at their jobs of "hindering change" and they will continue to be paid unheard of amounts to continue doing so as long as there is someone to pay them.
namely:
-people in law enforcement that cant write tickets to a machine because it was doing the mathematical best option.
-people in insurance that can't justify their existence if the accident rate become negligible .
-people that actually like to drive themselves (who will inevitably get hounded by the first 2 bullets)
-people that sell tires (because the self-driving cars are more efficient at preserving them)
-any company that relies on employing drivers (once you start on the self-driving path you start knocking off everyone that actually makes a living driving SOMETHING. e.g. garbage trucks, transfer trucks (seriously this one is a big one. google the numbers), taxi's. buses, limos, pizza delivery)
Progress stops for the people that are getting short changed unless corporate wins.
Let me tell you a fucking huge amount of people are going to get short changed.
Corporate will do it in phases, getting rid of jobs one type at a time.
If you think i'm still being pessimistic, I will bet you 10,000 dollars this is the way self-driving cars will progress.