I live in a location where human drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians have lots of kinks to work out. As I'm getting older, I think I'll soon fall into the categ

I live in a location where human drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians have lots of kinks to work out. As I'm getting older, I think I'll soon fall into the category of "human drivers with kinks to work out" too. I'm pretty sure my city would, on the net, be safer with self-driving cars. I think 90% of human drivers here will be better drivers than a self-driving car, but and it's not even the next 9% which scare me, but that 1% of least-safe human drivers. From a purely technical and apolitical perspective, if we could magically replace every car here with self-driving, I'd do it in a heart beat. I won't pretend, though, that technical perspectives are the most important. The financial, political, legal / liability, and similar organizational and human issues are important to get right. I'd like to see that before mass adoption. Today, I wouldn't buy a Tesla since I want to _own_ my car. If there is a new piece of shared infrastructure, I'd like to make sure it's run _in the public interest_. I don't see subscription-based, car-rental, cloud-based, algorithmic, freemium, network-effect tech-style models as something I'd want in my city.