506 karma · joined December 20, 2015
Good on you for being risk averse. Bad for all of us if you were in charge.
Risk will always be a factor when trying to push the envelope and bring new tech to life.
It's easy to put down most ideas on the basis of some risk - cars, rockets, medicine...
You have to build something and then you will discover how to improve on that eventually.
So many "but what if this and that and this..." & "and yeah let's see if it can handle X & Y"
This is the iPhone 1 of self-driving cars! That's akin to saying Apple should have waited to release their phone until iPhone 7 "because of this & that & this..."
Don't we have to start somewhere?? Aren't there supposed to be a big user base here who understands that it's an evolutionary process - we build the plane before we build the rocket before we shoot people into space?
Oviously the perfect self-driving car is still some way off, but I for one am thrilled this race is on!