Tesla wouldn't be where it is if it just had mere accident avoidance. Fewer would buy their cars and so they'd have worse training data and less money/viabilit

Tesla wouldn't be where it is if it just had mere accident avoidance. Fewer would buy their cars and so they'd have worse training data and less money/viability. They probably wouldn't exist. The author is essentially correct but you don't see the whole picture because there aren't news articles when a Toyota or BMW LKAS system fails and causes an accident. We'd just have incumbent car manufacturers with worse systems. In fact I'd probably go the other way and advocate for requiring these systems on cars similar to seatbelts. At the very least collision accident avoidance and blind spot detection. Some manufacturers still make them options or, worse, reserve them for the highest premium trims which is kinda bullshit given the technology really isn't that expensive.