I sort of agree with Polak here. The issue for me is that it is quite rare for technology to work perfectly 100% of the time. There are always hidden bugs in code, things overheat and fail, etc. This happens in things as simple as a blender and as complex as a nuclear reactor. The challenge is that, to make autonomous vehicles safe enough for mass use, the level of engineering and redundancy required would be in the same neighborhood as the power grid or the stock exchange....they just HAVE to work as close to perfect as possible. If the technology isn't perfect, the general population won't trust it and won't purchase it. How expensive would that be anytime in the next 25 years?
I can't even count on my smartphone to work perfectly. How am I to trust a car carrying my family?
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