That&#x27;s partly an effect of being on HN.<p>In non tech circles - the vast majority of the world - people are pretty famous for measuring risks by perception and not statistics.<p>The idea of a robotic truck taking away jobs while also being a risk to life? America would take up mass transit before it buys into that system.<p>Man I can see the headlines and political&#x2F; emotional arguments now. Godless SV tech priests rob Americans of the last few jobs they have. 1% and automation, no job left behind.!<p>It&#x27;s useful to remember that People refused seat belts until the argument was irrefutable. Hell doctors didn&#x27;t wash hands regularly until it was drilled into their heads that they were infecting patients.<p>And when it come to automated personal care - I bet that People will utterly, vociferously, oppose the loss of their agency in controlling their means of movement.<p>People have romanticized the man and the horse, the man and the bike, the car - but it&#x27;s because it&#x27;s a matter of controlling that power.<p>Selling that to the American public and the world at large is a multi generational effort.