> Tesla has been doing self driving tech for far longer than anyone else in the space, and they're not near perfect. I suspect that Tesla made its life much mo

> Tesla has been doing self driving tech for far longer than anyone else in the space, and they're not near perfect. I suspect that Tesla made its life much more difficult by betting the self-driving farm on cameras. Which may have been a case of sales team overriding engineering objections. This is just a guess as I have never worked for Tesla. But I did work on detecting and tracking various things and multi-modal sensing (e.g, camera+radar) is very powerful, as some things that are hard to detect, track or ID using one sensor type will be crystal clear after adding another sensor type. > I think it would only take a couple of big issues to make the public distrust the tech. The public, at least in the rich world, has become pretty bad at understanding risks. A single unlikely but highly dramatic event will affect preferences much stronger than a much more likely, but less media-genic thing with the same outcome (e.g., the death of a single person). This is not an easy hurdle to overcome, but it is possible if self-driving companies put more energy into comparing their safety against human drivers in a simple, clean, easy to understand form. My 2c.