[dreamcompiler]

I don't find your analogy to airbags persuasive. The vector space of "weird situations where an airbag can kill a person who would not have been killed otherwise" is vastly smaller in dimension and size than the comparative space where autonomous driving can kill someone. That in and of itself does not make AD a bad idea, but it does make it a much harder engineering problem.

As engineers we can pretty much completely characterize the airbag space and make predictions about where airbags are dangerous, and then mitigate those. What makes AD a bad idea is that such characterization is impossible with the AD space because AD is currently done almost exclusively by feeding massive amounts of data into a neural net pattern matcher. In other words we have no idea why AD works, and thus we have no idea when AD won't work until somebody dies. This is no way to do engineering, especially when lives are at stake.