I'm starting to dislike this kind of essay. It's thought provoking and interesting, but in the end you can bring it down a a few claims completely based on anec

I'm starting to dislike this kind of essay. It's thought provoking and interesting, but in the end you can bring it down a a few claims completely based on anecdotal evidence. There's no data/analysis to support anything, which is made worse by not clearly stating the main thesis; it ends as just a bit of "fear mongering". Let me pick on the claim that we'll suffer indefinitely from the same design flaws: cars still kill people, so we'll never learn, right? Wrong, if you look at the data car mortality has declined pretty steadily since the 1930's [1]. Not only it lacks evidence but the claim that some mistakes can't be learned as a general rule is also absurd: given generic statistical approach about our errors and our ability to gather data, we don't have to fear that some mistakes will somehow be "unlearnable". We may have cognitive biases, but thankfully we're smart enough to make tools free from such biases. There are many more points that could be dismantled like that. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year#mediaviewer/File:U.S._traffic_deaths_as_fraction_of_total_population_1900-2010.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...