(Disclaimer: I work at Google but not on self driving cars. My opinion, not my employer's, follows)
What about the reduced individual and societal costs (in insurance, medical, lost productivity, psychological trauma) that come with a 10x reduction in driving fatalities?
People might see the value of a 10x (or even smaller) reduction if it is expressed in those terms.
Common misconception amongst technophiles like us: humans aren't rational. We accept flaws in humans, not so much in machines. Because we can sympathise with human error but a machine error is always a defect.
What about the reduced individual and societal costs (in insurance, medical, lost productivity, psychological trauma) that come with a 10x reduction in driving fatalities?
People might see the value of a 10x (or even smaller) reduction if it is expressed in those terms.