This is a perfect example of something that needs to be proven perfect or it shouldn’t be deployed. So there’s that.

Not to mention that those number targets usually come from either a lobbying group that really wants all cars to go away, or from a politician who wants to look effective and picks a number out of the blue.

Zero chance of this getting out of the grays, but for the record:

Jalopnik’s position on autonomous cars and related tech spans the full spectrum from uncritical infatuation to let’s-not-be-hasty suspending our uncritical infatuation.

And just as delicious...

It isn’t clear if this is a possible factory error, or one which might have occurred during aftersales maintenance/repair. The factory don’t use the parts catalogue to decide where to put screws, but then why check every car instead of only those which had had maintenance or repair to seatbelts. Hmmm - factory floor…