"It was so over the top on feel-good-make-the-world-a-better-safe-place, you couldn't believe a word of it. If they really cared about safety, they would be add

"It was so over the top on feel-good-make-the-world-a-better-safe-place, you couldn't believe a word of it. If they really cared about safety, they would be adding safety features to cars already operated by humans (e.g., automatic breaking, warnings when you veer out of your lane, cameras, etc). They wouldn't try to take the giant step of removing the human." And yet Waymo's Sebastian Thrun, who has lost a friend in a car accident, is saying and doing the same. https://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_thrun_google_s_driverless_car https://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_thrun_google_s_driverles...