Excellent post! One note... Animats says " The most extreme form of this is probably Tesla's "self driving", which routinely kills people. Tesla does not take

Excellent post! One note... Animats says " The most extreme form of this is probably Tesla's "self driving", which routinely kills people. Tesla does not take responsibility for the deaths.[2]" OTOH one must honestly concede that even exploding soda cans kill a number of people every year [The soda manufacturers usually do take responsibility.] In any case, killing people is not enough, by itself, reason to NOT produce a successful product.