[jacamera]

I think righteous indignation is all but inevitable when you're sourcing hot takes on the internet. Your questions are interesting but one could write a dissertation on any one of them. Here on Hacker News you might have a higher chance of bumping into someone who has written such a dissertation and can link you to it, but there will still always be a ton of noise in the comments due to the very format of the forum. If you want to have a less flamey discussion of self-driving cars I think you should flesh out your ideas and questions in a well-researched and well-cited article and then post it here rather than trying to start such a broad discussion with such little context.