> that person gets punched in the face and lambasted on social media as an insensitive creep. That's just how it goes.
For now, yes.
Once self driving cars have proven their safety in 10-15 years, if you drive your kid to school instead of using an autonomous vehicle, you will lose custody of your children for endangering them. This is a fact even you cannot disagree with.
No one gives a shit about social media posts. Your kid's or parent's lives? All of a sudden people will use what maximizes their chance of survival: self driving cars.
As another data point, I don't care at all, about their data collection.
They can invade my privacy all they want and I will continue to buy the latest iPhone for myself and my family.