From my limited understanding, web browsers were improved drastically by the creation of cross-vendor testing (e.g. Acid tests). I wonder if there is a way to do some sort of AV simulator testing that would allow us to test the different manufacturers on data collected from the others.

AVs seem to all have different "mental models" of the external world, so it seems like we've got a lot of work before we can pipe data collected from this Cruise incident into a simulator and test Waymo, Uber, Tesla, etc.

in the universe of possibilities from my post, that also means removing the minimal risk regulation since it created more danger

until they figure that out, this is a not-intolerable course of action. it doesn't need to be interpreted as punitive.