I worry much more about public overreaction to rare incidents slowing and overregulating self driving technology than I do about the rare crash here and there.

I worry much more about public overreaction to rare incidents slowing and overregulating self driving technology than I do about the rare crash here and there. Overall statistical safety is what matters, and statistics goes out the window when the public emotionally fixates on specific mishaps and demands regulation that slows and cripples overall-safe technology. Everyone believes, without reason, that he is a good driver and will always beat those janky autopilots. HN threads about autonomous vehicles are always full of unrepresentative anecdotes and angry moral denunciations of technology. It's sad.