> So am I now exposed to other people using Python on the roads to operate heavy machinery? yes in the sense that python is running the ML models and deciding

> So am I now exposed to other people using Python on the roads to operate heavy machinery? yes in the sense that python is running the ML models and deciding what the vehicle should do, but it is heavily bounded in what it can do by the safety model which is implemented in bare-metal MISRA C running on the microcontroller that interfaces between openpilot and the CAN bus (panda). It enforces things like accel/braking limits and steering rate limits along with consistency checks, heartbeats, vehicle status checks, etc. Level 2 self driving is already only a best effort system so if python caused an issue it would just fall back to the safety model on the panda and ultimately the driver to operate the vehicle safely.