I completely agree. And regarding the incident with the bicycle walker, I’m reminded of a revelation that was shared with me a year or so ago about this whole concept: self-driving cars don’t have to be perfectly safe. They only have to be at least as safe as human drivers. Human drivers make millions of mistakes, many of them deadly, every single day.
What is being touted as the reason we MUST all use self-driving cars is their safety will be near-perfect and that any human driving is more dangerous.
Just advertising they are just as good as human drivers will defeat their purpose.