There was an excellent comment by curveship on the thread the other day [0] that really stuck with me so I want to parrot it a bit: > Our car-based transportat

There was an excellent comment by curveship on the thread the other day [0] that really stuck with me so I want to parrot it a bit: > Our car-based transportation system is far and away the most dangerous thing any of us accept doing on a daily basis ... everyone on the jury has in the back of their mind "that could have been me" > drivers don't get punished for doing something dangerous, ... They get punished for doing something more dangerous than the norm. > self-driving cars don't just have to be safer than human drivers to be free of liability, they need to be safe period. In a trial, they don't benefit from the default "could have been me" defense. You are obviously correct that a "statistically better than humans" vehicle is an improvement over what we currently have. But this is the kind of technically correct answer that doesn't actually resonate with people, especially those outside of tech. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=16624910 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=16624910