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I've made the same "never, ever will we completely replace human drivers" predictions before, informed by my experience trying to do it 30+ years ago but also by dozens of winters' worth of driving on snow-covered roads in New England.

But there are huge potential gains even if self-driving is only usable in 99.8% of driving scenarios, provided there's adequate safeguards and sensible hand-overs to human drivers. (Not dumping an out-of-control, at-speed automobile into the human driver's lap with 50 milliseconds of notice.)