re: #121 Anymouse 🌹

I am opposed to using the public highways as a test-bed.

At some point all technology advances with motor vehicles gets put out on to public highways for real world testing.

For instance, cruise control, seat belts, crumple zones, airbags (front, passenger, side, etc.), lane divergence warnings (Eyesight on Subarus for instance), adaptive cruise control, lane correction (active steering), self parking, etc.

The thing is that we still have to figure out as a society who is responsible for when things go wrong with the tech: the automaker when the tech fails to prevent an accident, or the human “driver” who was at the “wheel”. You know that the manufacturers are going to want it to be on the owner of the vehicle, because that opens up huge liability over time to the manufacturer.