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One way to roll out the tech is to do a hybrid system. Instead of selling self-driving tech as a convenience, the tech could be used to backup human driving. If the car sees I missed a stop sign, it could stop.

The goal shouldn't be a self driving car better than humans, but a self driving car better than a human driven car with automated safeguards.

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This is the case with a lot of implementations, and it’s really lot a good idea if you want people to actually use it that way. Ignoring the effect that kind of system has had on pilots, in the automotive industry it’s just going to put poor systems into use under the guise of “well you shouldn’t be counting on it anyways”

Either something works well enough to be used throughout an entire use case with less failure than a human (driving on a stretch of highway, switching lanes, getting off at an exit, etc) or it isn’t

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