You can test all you want on a test track, but there is no substitute for real-world driving conditions. With AI and ML, you'll get what you measure -- a bunch

You can test all you want on a test track, but there is no substitute for real-world driving conditions. With AI and ML, you'll get what you measure -- a bunch of self-driving cars that pass the tests perfectly but are unprepared for the real world. Normally it's fine to test by using models of the world rather than the real thing. But in the case of self-driving cars, driving conditions are too complex to simulate and people could die if things go wrong. My point is that we are left with a problem where the only viable test case is the real world, but it's likely that after a few more incidents people will favor banning self-driving cars rather than letting them improve at the cost of human lives.