[atom058]

The pillars are there to save lives during a crash.

The lane assist and brake assist - along with adaptive cruise control - are great systems that also increase safety, if used properly. The difference in fatigue alone that these systems contrubute to is (anecdotally from my experience) night and day.

I believe that the improved safety is worth the increasing complexity of maintenance.

[karmakaze]

Taking this further. Statistically I might be better off with full autonomous as soon as available, but I wouldn't feel as bad if I crashed myself vs dying while letting the ML data do it's thing. If harm came to others, I'd still be the one who chose to buy/use it and only technically free. At some point I will change my opinion but it will have to be many many times better than humans.