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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.