This is broadly the reasoning behind the fear in the linked article. But it's... really it's just fear. All the stuff you posit is something that can be tested and analyzed. Thousands of people have been driving this stack around since March with no accidents. At some point data will win, right? Have you worked out in your head when that will be?
> I don't think we understand the human factors involved
Do we? Because human factors responsible for literally every traffic accident in history, and those don't seem as scary to you. Basically: it's fear. It's just fear. And it's reaching a peak right now (and being deliberately pushed, frankly) just as Tesla is reaching a public rollout.
And why? Because there's another fear at work here too. If this rolls out and doesn't kill people. If it turns out that it actually is safe, then a lot of people across a lot of industries stand to lose a lot of money. Stories like this are, fundamentally, just marketing press hits. The public FSD beta rollout in some sense marks the last chance to kill Tesla's autonomy product before... it wins.
> I don't think we understand the human factors involved
Do we? Because human factors responsible for literally every traffic accident in history, and those don't seem as scary to you. Basically: it's fear. It's just fear. And it's reaching a peak right now (and being deliberately pushed, frankly) just as Tesla is reaching a public rollout.
And why? Because there's another fear at work here too. If this rolls out and doesn't kill people. If it turns out that it actually is safe, then a lot of people across a lot of industries stand to lose a lot of money. Stories like this are, fundamentally, just marketing press hits. The public FSD beta rollout in some sense marks the last chance to kill Tesla's autonomy product before... it wins.