> What's the point left about self-driving cars then?
The point of a self-driving car is unburdening the user from the task of driving it, allowing them to engage in other activities if they chose to do so.
That it has the potential of being safer is a nice perk but definitely not the primary goal. Right now the challenge is whether we can make them as safe on average as human drivers do, that way we can avoid effectively sacrificing people for the convenience such a system would provide.
The point of a self-driving car is unburdening the user from the task of driving it, allowing them to engage in other activities if they chose to do so.
That it has the potential of being safer is a nice perk but definitely not the primary goal. Right now the challenge is whether we can make them as safe on average as human drivers do, that way we can avoid effectively sacrificing people for the convenience such a system would provide.