I read a really interesting book lately called &quot;Empires of Light&quot; about the early days of electrically. Basically, people got electrocuted <i>all the freaking time</i> before we really figured out how to wire things safely. At one point there was a huge tangle of telegraph and power wires haphazardly strewn together all over New York city. People would abandon old wires in place and just run new ones on top of them.<p>So, there&#x27;s going to be some deaths. Without a doubt, before autonomous cars are fully integrated into society, there will be some deaths that would not have happened with a human driver. That&#x27;s always the cost of human progress.<p>Of course we should do everything we can to minimize it as much as possible, but there&#x27;s no way to guarantee a new technology will be 100% perfect on the first try, or the second try, or the 50th try. What scares me is that one of these deaths will happen and the public outcry will kill the whole endeavor before it ever gets off the ground. We shouldn&#x27;t let that happen.