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At the end of the article, the author makes the appeal that self-driving development should continue and increase on public roads because the companies can't develop their products otherwise.

The companies can absolutely develop their products outside of public streets. A few thousand acres and some purpose built infrastructure would do it. If that's not cost effective, well that's their problem.

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“Why are there still bugs in our software the developers have a dev environment and a test suite”

If you invest (significantly) into a test suite that realistically mirrors the real world, that argument doesn't fly. Think Chaos Monkey squared. But it's neither cheap nor fast. Sure, some rare edge cases are probably impossible to model even with great care. But that's not the stage self driving is at, they struggle with pretty common and predictable problems.

You’re talking out of both sides of your mouth here. Even the greatest test suite on the planet will miss edge cases in the real world. Self driving cars are already 99.999% successful and effectively perfect in simulation.

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