"It's a brilliant idea, designed by very smart people, but one day you know that this will be bought by a man named Keith, and he is going to wake up one morning and think he can service it himself. And you won’t be able to relax in your autonomobile [sic] because you know that Keith is in his, coming the other way."

I really hope that humanity will be able to advance fast enough, to keep up with the advances in self-driving and assisted-driving vehicles.

These days you can 3d print a .45, but would you really wrap your hand around that thing and squeeze the trigger?

This is a car...

Would love it if my elderly parents could enjoy such automation to assist in avoiding minor accidents, while preserving their autonomy. They won't likely be buying any new cars at this point. But retrofitting their existing cars with some bump and crash avoidance functionality would be great.

One thing articles like this do bring up is that we may be able to retrofit a lot of existing cars which could shorten the adoption delay caused by people keeping their cars 10+ years.