Nuclear energy is a good example of the situation that self-driving cars find themselves. A common saying in my industry is that with safety critical systems yo

Nuclear energy is a good example of the situation that self-driving cars find themselves. A common saying in my industry is that with safety critical systems you do not get to decide whether the systems kill people or not, the best you can do is decide how many people get killed. Unfortunately for self-driving cars, like nuclear energy, even if the number is far less than existing technologies the public has little appetite for the indiscriminate death.