I paid to fund research into autonomous driving, because I believe human steering of cars is a huge public health problem. I generally find FSD with highway driving level attention to be safer overall because it’s pervasively aware. I can’t maintain 360 degree awareness 100% of the time no matter how hard I try, but the car does. I keep my attention on the big dangers and monitor it’s performance closely and that’s enough to improve my overall driving safety. My goal was never press a button and take a nap - although that would be cool. My goal was to crowd fund research into methods to make driving assistance more complete and accessible to everyone. I have been satisfied with the progress, even if teslas research doesn’t pan out into what they advertised as their aspiration. Research rarely does. But I believe they’ve materially advanced the state of the art, have created broad awareness, and have driving investment in other R&D efforts in both established car makers, new entrants, tech companies, and labs, etc. Solving traffic safety will be akin to curing cancer, so I feel well rewarded for my donation. Plus, whether you want to accept my metric, my metric is the one that matters to me, and it was I who spent the money for it. (I would note again that per driving session accounts for most traffic accidents better than per mile as highway driving accumulates miles faster than local driving and has significantly less accidents, and all sessions start and end with local driving).