[throwaway314155]

The shoddy past 10-15 years of self driving improvements has led me to believe that this "inevitable future" is at least 20-30 years away, if not longer given that a huge portion of existing cars would need to be effectively outlawed for that that to happen, people and businesses will basically always have legitimate reasons for wanting a human in the loop (and not remotely), and the tech has been worked on actively for decades and still doesn't work well enough to avoid loss of life (which, similar to a terrorist attack, might not be as devastating in numbers as the current state of affairs with humans driving - but will absolutely cause a deeper psychological impact on the general public as there is something seemingly more cruel and dystopian about a company killing people via "error" or cost-savings than a person killing someone by accident).

[trainsarebetter]

The psychological distinction is definitely something that was perhaps overlooked. we need to put the blame on some one, for closer. Loosing to some rounding error definitely is haunting