[ThrustVectoring]

It doesn't need to outperform an experienced and reasonably careful human driver to be a significant net benefit to society. All it needs to do is get the most dangerous 10-20% of the population out from behind the wheel.

[Nomentatus]

It's occurred to me lately that we probably need to get autonomous vehicles on the road even a bit earlier than this, since delaying how quickly the safety learning curve is mounted has a long-term cost in lives, too.