I'm not a believer in the safety or reliability of full automation. Even the "latest and greatest" electronic devices have their share of bugs and failures (looking at you, iPhone). I work for a med device company that makes a $2mil surgical robot, and even that thing sees regular failures. No big deal when Safari on my phone crashes, but it's a different story when you're talking about putting your family in one of these things at 60mph+. Some things just need to have a real person behind them for when the unexpected happens.
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