[hamilyon2]

Autonomous robots in houses are not about to save lives and provide hours of free time to anyone. Growing pains will kill people, the only question is: under which conditions can we say that thay will be more safe than their human-driven counterparts.

[non_repro_blue]

We need time to mature this technology. Household home-ec bots are a safe start to a bold plan.

Autonomy is an ambitious project. Large heavy machinery is an unnecessarily risky entry into an immature field.

Building reliable technology in a mild environment will permit the opportunity to prove trusted patterns of operation, under the safest conditions. People will be able to gain a feel for normal dispositions of autonomous motile devices, and build good collective practices for safe operating environments.

Corporations should not be trusted as accountanle entities. Volkwagen's deceptive green emissions scandal shows how far a sub-department will go, to meet the bottom line.

Competitive business practices in a hazardous and unforgiving operating environment are not what we want birthing this sort of technology.