I knew a girl (in the sf bay area) who hated self driving cars. She said people should just learn to drive better. While at the same time, you go to the DMV and people are on their phones in the testing area getting the test answers. Anybody with a CA drivers license should be audited by an out of state driving agency
I do think it's reckless to not publish their data and allow public discussion of the tradeoffs. Tesla is subjecting everyone on the road to their interpretation of the data that these systems are ready and just saying "trust us".
I wonder if they have some internal cultural scarring from the TSLAQ debacle. People were weaving (now verifiably false) damaging stories about sales rates by flying private planes over parking lots. More recently, the media was claiming a Tesla ran into a tree on autopilot… until a regulatory agency tested it and concluded that couldn’t possibly have happened.
I could see the thought inside Tesla being “any data we could possibly release would be twisted and used against us; therefore, why bother?”