We're not talking about dissatisfaction here. We're talking about meeting basic needs like food, housing, and health services. Wanting to be satisfied of these things is absolutely true in general.
These are my thoughts exactly. In fact, nothing exclusive to Russia is mentioned in that article at all. It describes old known attack vectors that can be exploited by China as much as Russia, or any other bad actor for that matter. Very strange that the word "Russia" is mentioned without substance so many times throughout the article.
I think there is likely a common need for a set of standard training models. This may hinder innovation for some time, but it's a cost we should accept when releasing a potentially dangerous technology to the public. It would have the added benefit of multiple companies contributing to a common self-driving standard which could accelerate its development.
That being said, when the first real cars were introduced to the world and later improved upon there were many more fatalities than we're likely to experience with self-driving technology.