> I don’t understand the demand for “legality”. FSD is like a driver with a fresh license - both are a little dangerous in the beginning but both will get better over time.
Liability is the answer here, the driver is liable and so needs to adjust their risk-taking because of possible consequences. FSD failures has no consequences to the responsible party (Tesla and other automakers, etc.) if legality isn't in question.
> Also the FSD’s promise (be it Tesla or anyone else) is so far reaching that this “a little dangerous in the beginning“ is worth some elaboration.
What do you mean worth some elaboration? So elaborate on it, not sure if you stated what you meant. Even then, I'm a user of the road and I've not been asked to participate in Tesla's or any automakers experiments, this is a public good, used by real people everyday, not some laboratory to be experimented on and tweak your experiment accordingly.
If someone you love is killed by a FSD failure in public roads, would you still defend it? And I know that appealing to this emotional side might sound like an exaggeration but this is what might happen to someone else, someone they love might be killed by this experiment, are you willing to accept that damage to be done to your family in name of progress of a proprietary technology being developed for profit?
> Just imagine reading a book in a self driving car and thinking about a new generation of self driving:-)
I don't want to be in a self-driving car reading a book, why would I need that if I have access to trains carrying me faster than any car could on a road and when I can hail a cab for the last stretch if that isn't served by any mass transportation system? Things that aren't just existing technology but also much more environmentally friendly than having 1 car per person or household?
I dream of a world with less need of cars, with less cars taking space in city centres. Cars brought us far but also has shown us that aren't sustainable for the longer term (next centuries), I don't dream about having a car that drives me around, it sounds quite dystopian to be honest.