Setting back consumer confidence is a good thing: Anyone who thinks automated cars will be ready before 2030 is delusional.
2030 is coming soon, and people have short memories.
2030 is coming soon, and people have short memories.
In other words, yes, you will have high-tech enclaves ("works around Chandler because we already know how to drive there"); they will be minor compared to the rest of the world still living in 20th century (if even that). Try driving a SDC outside the population centers - this is literally uncharted territory. "But but but cities are hard, everything else is EASY!" Oh yeah? Once SDVs venture out in the open, we'll see another wave of deaths (beyond the one that begins now): "car drove itself off badly marked road", "car stranded itself and did something profoundly stupid" etc.
Driving with exact maps takes off one of the hard parts; having a point cloud of the entire continent sounds improbable.