[zhaphod]

I have an eithical dilemma for you. As of now on an average 33000 ppl are killed in road accidents in USA. Lets say Tesla's or other ICE makers' autopilot reduces this to 20000 deaths. But of those 20000 deaths, say 2000 were purely because of autopilot alogrithm which wouldn't have happened if there was no autopilot. As a regulator what will you do. Approve autopilot because it saved 13000 people or ban it because 2000 were killed just because of it? I know how this will play in media. Unfortunately autopilot will be demonized and most likely will get banned.

[ksec]

I have had the same question as well. I dont think it will get banned, I just think the society as a whole will take a long time to adjust those perception.

And we will likely have zones where all cars are AV. So as long as human sticks to rules and not popping out on a street for no reason. I still think we could have a future where AV becomes the default.