An ex-coworker now at [redacted autonomous vehicle company] just tried to convince me to come work for them. Obviously I declined.
In case it wasn't obvious to anyone else, let me just state in plain English: there is no amount of money that will get me to build self-driving cars for you.
I don't even like sharing the road with L2 ADAS equipped vehicles. The last thing I want to do is contribute to making the problem worse.
Now, if you wanted me to work on a fully human-controlled EV with no telematics or automation, designed for repairability with a 30+ year target lifespan, and redundant sensing and actuation and triple redundant lockstep CPUs on safety-critical components like ABS? Maybe we can talk.
@azonenberg the problem isn't that autonomous cars are unsafe, the problem is that our roads are unsafe. The idea that a simple blunder or unforseen circumstances can kill is and should be unacceptable.
