Assuming that what you say is true about closed course testing (and that they truly made an effort to replicate the dynamism of a city), why do they gotta test this snack dab in the middle of cities (where we should rather invest in public transportations anyway) instead of, I don’t know, some trails in the woods, where there would also be a bunch of unknowns?

All this reeks of “gotta go to market ASAP to please the investors / shareholders above the rest of humanity” to me.

I agree that it would be safer eventually, but also, testing in vitae might not be the good way to do it. Sure, testing in prod is fast, but there is a reason we don’t do it.

good to know there’s a button in the car. For some reason I thought there only was one in the app which, would it have been the case, is fine if you called the car, but if you’re a guest passenger or just in an emergency and can’t use the phone, then you’d be screwed.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YwN5hU5PYWs Sure, this wasn’t that dangerous, but knowing that you gotta call Customer Service to get the car to stop in case of emergency is pretty bad design, safety wise.

“rationalists”. They dare use that name unironically.

Search for SNC-Lavalin + Saadi Gadhafi, you’ll get a lot of hits, for many different things. SNC-Lavalin was such a corrupt firm. Still are, most likely, though they changed name to AtkinsRéalis.

(To note : a few high positioned people got sent to prison over the years, but I don’t know enough about this particular case to know what really happened.)