I’m a car guy. I like driving. I’m not particularly in favor of automated vehicles. I just want to push the dialogue about what could happen if the technology adoption of self-driving vehicles is as fast as some other technologies. There are powerful forces pushing us towards this.

On the point about computers making life and death decisions, I would argue:

• they already do in many contexts make significant decisions that affect us, including life and death (medical triage / military weapons / airplane controls)
• Most of these are complex, multi-variable equations in the real world and are unlikely to come down to one ethical binary decision
• Other humans make decisions that impact our lives every day — and likely are much worse and less consistent about them than computers could be. Societies often have to make decisions that cause negative consequences for some people to improve outcomes for others