The difference is scale. If you make an error, it’s just you that makes the error. If an autopilot dev makes an error, it is amplified to every car on the road.

The difference is scale. If you make an error, it’s just you that makes the error. If an autopilot dev makes an error, it is amplified to every car on the road. Right now, there’s not a lot of those cars on the road, so we have no idea what that amplification even looks like. We’ve had 12 deaths, with what? Half a million cars on the road? A single bug will hurt maybe a single person right now. If all cars were driving themselves, a single bug could kill millions in a single moment.