The more immediate concern is self driving vehicles that are clearly not ready to be on public roads being allowed to test (or not being pulled off the roads).
The only way for either of these things to get better is through real-world experience.
And I work in robotics.
Driving is terrifying.
But how does one defend themselves when the vehicle does not want to do so due to inexperience or negligence? Best you can do is hope it doesn't decide for you that your infant's carseat is the best place to collide with a semi it just noticed because it was gray in fog, and oh by the way the CEO decided not to use lidar or radar, and oh this particular ice patch was not in the training set. If you don't trust lvl 5 in those conditions, you don't really trust lvl 5.
Have they not already completed many millions of miles in simulation, back in 2018?
To me, it looks like self-diving capabilities have reached a maxima. The resources poured into it have barely been needle movers in objective metrics.
Yeah, but videos aren't objective metrics. For me, an objective metric is "went $FOO miles in $BAR conditions without needing any intervention".
What would you consider an objective metric?
But who decides whether intervention was necessary? This is still too vague.
Irrelevant - until the car has actually gone without an intervention for whatever the median is for human drivers[1], we can't very well claim that it is safe for use.
[1] The average human driver goes hundreds of thousands of kilometers without crashing.
if you are going to make that argument, you have to explain why we are socialising losses and privatising profits (again)
so some number of people will be injured of killed while self driving cars gain experience, and then private corporations will extract profit from it?
Until there is a emergency vehicle thats unable to get through.