To preface this complaint, I'm generally bullish on self driving and think it will be solved to a reasonable standard in not too many years. With that said, even if this solution drove flawlessly I'm not so sure I like idea of cars being driven by an optical system that is attached to the windshield with suction cups.

Much like we already mandate things like car lights cannot be on a moving piece of body work in the USA (to ensure lights visible even when boot or trunk open), I wonder if we should ensure that the critical sensors for self driving are hard mounted to the car securely?

There is inevitably going to be occasions this falls off mid-drive - these suction cups are rarely perfect in my experience.

I've always wondered if CarPlay/AndroidAuto one day might somehow just reuse existing sensor suites on vehicles to provide self driving - this would let the cellphone (which increasingly has ML acceleration hardware anyway) still be responsible for the driving with cameras that won't fall off.