> Google and Apple do not have a culture of the type of careful software engineering that I would trust my life with. No, but they have enough smart people, an

> Google and Apple do not have a culture of the type of careful software engineering that I would trust my life with. No, but they have enough smart people, and engineers of every stripe that if your life did depend on it, they'd probably make it work. Google's driver-less cars seem to be doing pretty good at the moment. Plus, when you have more driver-less cars on the roads, they can communicate with each other to adjust to similar speeds based on congestion, accelerate/decelerate in the most efficient manner (so as to not slow down the flow of traffic), and in the case of road hazards, they'd communicate together and avoid them. Based on most of the drivers I see on the roads, I'd absolutely feel safer if most of them didn't control their vehicles, and I'd definitely trust a lot of smart people developing algorithms more than the average driver...