The Slow Progress of Driverless Vehicles

I'm surprised by how slow progress has been, not on the technology side, but on getting the autonomous vehicles on the road at scale. There's definitely benefits to self-driving cars, but I think the fear runs very deep and there's also a lot of entrenched interests. If we just put really half-baked prototype of a piece of software out into the world, usually people don't get harmed. But if you put out a robot car into the world,. you have to be really conscious that it's safe enough. The other aspect is parking. Most cars just sit around all day long, either on the street or in a parking lot or in a garage - they're wasted