Autonomous vehicles

[Spongebob]

Not the point. Cars have accidents all the time, even with all the best closed course testing. But what I am talking about is avoiding things like the Ford Pinto. Or did you forget that? Automation in cars for now, should be relegated to closed environment. One certainly cannot blame a business for everything the user does with your product. But ultimately it is still up to the maker to do everything they can to insure safety and not use the public as lab rats.

This is a valid point and it should be noted that there are quite a lot of recalls these days due to design problems with vehicles.  I don't remember ever having a recall until around 2005, since then every single car I've owned has had multiple recalls, some of them very serious.  I'm not sure if this is a quality control issue or just a business issue with trying to get new models out too quickly.  We certainly don't want AV technology that's not thoroughly tested, but then look at our phones and computers and think about how many updates they require to "fix" problems.  It doesn't inspire confidence.