[paavoova]

Statistically, yes, but I think people can be afraid of the lack of direct accountability for AVs. A distracted/drunk driver, for example, is something easy to attribute cause and blame to. And you're not afraid of the car, you're afraid of the potentially negligent, dangerous people driving it.

But an autonomous object that behaves wildly unpredictably simply because of a malfunctioning sensor or a software bug is something that defies known reasoning which you're normally trained to respond to. You can no longer make eye contact with drivers at a crosswalk, instead you can only assume the AV will behave as normal, and if it doesn't and runs you over there's nothing you could have done differently and you were just unlucky and lost the statistics lottery.

I am very uneasy of car manufactures and regulators writing me off as a factored-in statistic. You are basically then allowing vehicles on the road with a deterministic cause of incident.

[jfoster]

Perhaps this is just a difference between two valid personal views.

For me, people are the thing that will be wildly unpredictable. I anticipate that autonomous vehicles will eventually make roads seem extremely machine-like & predictable.

I recognise that Tesla's FSD isn't there yet, but I anticipate that it eventually will get there.