Totally unsupported by examples, but it seems like the huge economic benefits will cause society to underestimate to risk of autonomous vehicles. We'll debate a

Totally unsupported by examples, but it seems like the huge economic benefits will cause society to underestimate to risk of autonomous vehicles. We'll debate and distort the relative risk and provide plausible deniability for the right people. In the end, we'll tweak the AI based on real world failures until it's good enough to win the PR battle. This is assuming it can be tweaked to work. The key will be protecting (or limiting) the liability of car manufactures from lawsuits. If AVs are involved in 37,000 fatalities a year (the 2016 human stats) the lawsuits will be untenable. Maybe there's a plan to handle this, and I just haven't seen it. Just my opinion...