Pretty much my biggest fear, right here! Always uneasy around big things in the watery abyss.

For sure! Although this is a pipe dream in the real world. We should work towards solutions for today as well as advocating for fewer cars in the long-term.

Basically xfinitywifi for Amazon products

This is absolutely correct. And related to the issue of situational awareness, Tesla Autopilot has utterly failed at the basic design systems concept of "foreseeable misuse."

Having worked in the driver monitoring space, it pains me to see a half-baked, black box system like Autopilot deployed without a driver camera. Steering wheel and seat sensors are not up to the task of making sure the driver is attentive. Don't even get me started on "FSD," which proposes to work in harmony with the human driver in far more complex scenarios.

The article is taking issue with the hero worship of Musk, and the unproductive world view which he espouses - not criticizing him just for the sake of it. Unlike your comment, which is intended to cut down the author.

"And one would hope the latter is true, since 2/3 of the US population does not attend college."

Not to mention the vast majority of humanity! One can get a lot out of a "college education," but there is a lot more to life than that.

Zen Buddhism would point out that you and everybody around you dies in both scenarios.

I have a feeling most here didn't seriously read this submission...

Possibly the most thoughtful comment I've ever read on this site :)

Gosh, thanks for your kind words!