>But if the self driving vehicles are being a bit slower than human-driven cars, that’s a very small price to pay for the huge safety benefits. The safety bene

>But if the self driving vehicles are being a bit slower than human-driven cars, that’s a very small price to pay for the huge safety benefits. The safety benefit doesn't even have to factor in, or only somewhat. Part of the drive for speed with human driven vehicles is that for most of us it represents pure waste in our lives. The two hours I drive to a job isn't some uplifting activity, just robotic drudgery. Yeah I can load up a podcast or something and try to get something out of the time (at the cost of slightly more distraction perhaps!) but that's limited. So of course I'm motivated to have that be as short as possible. Shaving off 15 minutes on a trip made a hundred times a year will add up to weeks of my life back to me, although of course at a higher risk of losing my life entirely perhaps? Whereas if the robotic aspect was taken care of by a computer instead, I'd be free to make far more use of that time. Or even just sleep, which is still useful. If the car takes an extra half hour, that's not necessarily a problem in the slightest because it's not a wasted half hour. Being conservative will be much easier purely from a self-interested perspective. Avoiding all the other issues is very good as well but I don't think it'd require some self-sacrifice either. >In fact, as a pedestrian and cyclist, I could not care less. Well, you should.