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his crappy autopilot idea gets any more legs.
I actually think AI will create consistently, and therefore more safely driven cars; no impatient accelerations, squeezing into gaps, aggressive close passes, aggressive misuse of the horn. No more sometimes forgetting to look when pulling out / turning left. They will probably prevent doors being opened into traffic, too. And, possibly most importantly, no-one at the wheel to get angry at. We waste so much energy fuming over the person at the wheel whom we perceive to have been rude / dangerous. Driverless cars will be entirely predictable, as cyclists we will learn their behaviour, and we can simply work around them. I'm glad you brought this up because I hadn't thought about it before.
It's all fine of course until they start self replicating and trying to wipe us out.
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Musk’s single success is making electric cars ‘cool’. He’s not the best car manufacturer or employer or human being. Yes, recycling the batteries is a nice touch but it’s too expensive for most homeowners to buy one. And Tesla’s popularity perpetuates a car-centric culture that will become even less welcoming to cyclists if his crappy autopilot idea gets any more legs.