[InclinedPlane]

This is a straw man. Nobody is asking for perfection. What is needed are processes and regulations that ensure a high confidence that companies with self-driving cars have done the best that can be expected of them to ensure their vehicles are safe and that they have met a minimum bar in that regard as well. There are many industries where this already happens, there's no reason to single out self-driving automobiles as being impossible to regulate properly.

[always_good]

I can agree with this, but if a company wants to put self-driving cars on the street, I don't see how certificated engineers on their staff is the thing that matters.

Does that demonstrate that the cars are safe? Even a little bit?

To me it just demonstrates that a grunt is on the chopping block for what amounts to systemic failure.