Fatal Tesla Model S Crash in China Blamed on Autopilot

Yes, but there is a tipping point here and finally an issue about whether or not most drivers really are prepared to drive and should get or keep licences after showing themselves unfit in the first place. Our unwillingness to do more to change human behaviour is at the root of all our global troubles. I am taking about the evolution of consciousness here, and a 2300 year old Western ideology which rests on many false premises about the nature of the self, etc. The sense of entitlement behind this is troubling and it does much to undermine more socially sustainable forms of human powered and mass transit. Your argument is mostly a straw man, nice try, you are not really responding to my concern but lumping part of the evidence supporting my deeper concerns which support my overall argument against me, which is inconsistent. It's pure hyperbole and not germane. What guarantee do you have that auto-pilot will reduce this number as most of these problems are already cause by technology, i.e. the expectation that everyone should have a car in a world rushing about trying to live some ideal but impossible life! I don't think quoting statistics makes an argument. What are your tacit premises? It is probably those I am questioning; this focus on hyper individualism over the collective is part of the problem. We are unwise is our use of most technologies. We are slaves of greed and excess. Fear is the puppet master. "The goal of every institution striving to help people should always be to obviate the need for its own existence" eM, the unknown philosopher