(I'm sure the engineers at Tesla are just as dissatisfied about the state of things, but Musk is relentless. I'm glad I chose not to work there)
> “In the U.S., things are legal by default, and in Europe, they are illegal by default,” Musk said last month during the opening of Tesla's factory near Berlin. “We have to get approval beforehand, whereas in the U.S., you can kind of do it on your own cognizance, more or less.”
This sums it up. Elon is gambling the entire autonomous industry on the hopes that these crashes never go too viral. That it's never a slow news week when FSD happens to drive like a blind teenager and cremate the driver and murder innocent bystanders.
If this ever happens it's the end of autonomous driving. The regulation will be so punitive and the hoops so plentiful that it will be over, for everyone.
I'm so glad autonomous cars are a scam, because the price its proponents want to impose on everyone else to make it a reality (legally enforced non-ownership of a car you bought, even further expansion of the road network and even greater sprawl, a privately owned panopticon, banning other road users, even proposals for mandatory self driving car beacons on pedestrians, and guarantee there'd be a 'premium subscription' down the line to go anywhere other than a major chain for dinner) is far too great.