“God help us, we’re in the hands of engineers.”
I’d rather be in the hands of engineers than in the hands of lawyers and politicians.
Shuttles with drivers crash. People don’t go crazy when that happens. Certainly I’m not happy to hear that a driverless vehicle crashed, but one huge difference between a human crash and a robotic crash is that with the robotic crash, engineers can learn from it and prevent it from happening again. With a human driver, each one has to learn to drive from from a knowledge base of zero and when one makes a mistake it can’t be fixed or prevented in all the others.
Don’t ascribe the blame to Engineering, for it was Marketing that foisted this upon the world.