By this logic - you wouldn't want to drive any car since no satellite programmer could guarantee no bugs in their initial software either.
I think it's a tradeoff. If self-driving cars can save tens of thousands of lives in the US every year, how many should we be willing to risk to enable this?
Eventually your insurance company may force this on you due to higher premiums, or government may make injuring someone in a manual car accident a crime like assault.
Perhaps. I'll worry about such things after self-driving cars actually exist. Right now they are an engineer's fantasy, or a salesperson's exaggerated way of describing semi-automatic assistance features; who knows what the reality will eventually be.
Self-driving cars only exist as research prototypes. They are as speculative as flying cars.
Tesla is the only offender I know about when it comes to real cars that actually exist and have obnoxious over-the-air update systems, because normal car companies are constrained by their contracts with dealer networks, so any software updates they might want to push on us would have to be done through the normal vehicle service program. This can easily be avoided by choosing a different mechanic. One can't very well choose a different mechanic if you are stuck a Tesla-like system that pushes diffs at you via radio, and that's what concerns me.
I think it's a tradeoff. If self-driving cars can save tens of thousands of lives in the US every year, how many should we be willing to risk to enable this?
Eventually your insurance company may force this on you due to higher premiums, or government may make injuring someone in a manual car accident a crime like assault.