self-driving cars have the potential to be much safer than human-driven cars
And if car makers have extensively proven that this is, in fact, the case, they might be allowed on the streets.
(arguably, they already are)
Narrator: they weren't.
“Tesla is having more severe — and fatal — crashes than people in a normal data set,”
And I guess this normal data set is including US drivers only, who arguably are ... not that good.
it causes proponents to get overly defensive.
Uh, no. Getting "overly defensive" is your choice, and yours alone. "Look what you made me do" is really a terrible excuse for anything.
Oh, you're basing your opinions on fact-twisting headlines of right-wing "newspapers", instead of, you know, reading the actual article where even they have to paint the picture just a liiittle bit differently.
You do understand the difference between "removing roads completely" and "removing all roads", right?