“I'm terrified that self-driving cars will make a mistake with my family in the car.”
Your fear is rational. Trusting a machine with your family's lives requires a level of faith in engineering that no marketing campaign should shortcut. Human drivers make 40,000 fatal errors a year in the US alone. AI drivers make different errors — rarer, but sometimes bizarre and unpredictable. The honest truth is: both are imperfect. What matters is that you make the choice with full information, not hype.
Your Practice
Research the specific autonomous system in your vehicle — not from the manufacturer's press release, but from independent safety studies. Understand what it does well and where it fails. Set your own boundaries: maybe you use it on highways but not in school zones. Technology doesn't have to be all-or-nothing. Your judgment is the final safety system.
The Architects
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.”