[oliveshell]

> Surely the more salient question is how much senseless death could be prevented by the adoption of self driving technology, isn't it?

Absolutely. However, when answering that question, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to thoughtfully consider this stuff.

Clearly, even flawed autonomous driving— if widely adopted— would save many lives. But I can’t think of many things that would slow that adoption more than a public perception of “killer robots” roaming the streets.

If we seriously want wide adoption, it’ll be hard to avoid addressing the qualitative perceptual difference between a death caused by a human driver and one caused by a machine that we’ve engineered.