[snowwrestler]

Society does not accept any level of car accidents. That’s why there are safety regulations, that’s why there are safety investigators, that’s why there is a ton of safety-related R&D and testing, heck that’s why there are stoplights and traffic laws and rules about using your mobile phone.

Individually, no one ever wants to get into a car accident. Collectively, the desired number of accidents each year is zero. We’re not there yet because it’s hard to do, not because of acceptance.

So any new mechanism for accidents is going to come in for very heavy scrutiny. And by mechanism I don’t mean solely technology, but also human factors, which are huge issues when it comes to the current state of “self driving” cars.

[matz1]

Society does accept some level of car accident otherwise there would be no car on the road at all.

Safety regulations is good but too much safety regulation is bad.

As individual I accept some level risk, I accept that there is some level of risk that I will be in accident, the trade off of 0 risk are too much.