To me, the issue of safe transportation is ultimately an issue for regulation by civil tort law. It seems to me that when Tesla concludes that its “FSD” software, unsupervised by humans, is safer than the preponderance of human drivers, Tesla should make a push in one or a very few low-population states to get “licenses” for unsupervised computerized driving with Tesla insuring the concomitant risks.
And when that results in a tort, and the cry is raised to ban “cars without drivers,” that opposition would logically be answered by pointing to any accidents unambiguously caused by human error, and asking for proof that FSD would not have prevented it. It being unanswerable either way.
That appears to be the solution to highway carnage in the long run. This approach would lead to casualties, but we are already suffering casualties now.
BEV = Battery Electric Vehicle,
HEV = Hybrid Electric Vehicle,
PHEG = Pluin Hybrid Electric Vehicle,
OR...
SEV = Shitbox Electric Vehicle
Although much more than an ICE, electric motors are not 100 percent efficient. Chargers are not 100 percent efficient. Batteries do not take up the charge, nor discharge at 100 percent efficiency. Nor is the entire drivetrain 100 percent efficient.