Congratulations, by waiting a year to implement self driving cars, through overly burdening government regulations, you just killed ten thousand people.
What about those people? The people who WILL die in car accidents next year unless we do something about it. Screw them, right?
This isn't a self-driving car. It's a driver assist. It depends on an alert driver behind the wheel. What we're learning is that these systems can, in some circumstances, be the worst of both worlds --- a human driver lulled into complacency by technology that was not designed to handle complicated road conditions autonomously --- a system that itself generates both human and machine error.
There's an interesting similarity with Air France 447 in your description -- a crash caused by information overload and the normal assist system going into an alternate mode.
Noone is arguing about the benefits of self-driving technology in general.
The question at hand is: Does thisspecific piece of equipment actually work as described, and move us towards that goal, or is it a piece of cobbled together junk that will cause more accidents? If you want to sell thisspecific piece of equipment on the consumer market, you'd better have a good answer to that question, and be able to back it up with more than "hey, it worked for me this morning!"
What about those people? The people who WILL die in car accidents next year unless we do something about it. Screw them, right?