Arguing that people should do what you want, irrespective of what they themselves want leads to all kinds of pain, on all sides. "Why are people voting against

Arguing that people should do what you want, irrespective of what they themselves want leads to all kinds of pain, on all sides. "Why are people voting against their own self-interest?" is an analogous phrase. It seems awfully condescending to me. Nobody's bound to your perspective of what's rational. Better to just accept that this is the kind of hurdle that self-driving will have to jump over and work on getting there ASAP. Elon realized that the best way to get people to buy electric cars was to make electric cars that are better than gas cars, not to tell people they're wrong and stupid for not wanting to buy some inferior electric car. Once self-driving cars are obviously better than all but the best race drivers, people will accept them as a matter of course.