Security isn't a measurable commodity, It's a philosophy.

I'm good with that. I don't want have to build an opaque dome over my property to keep privacy. And I don't want to become collateral damage of a drone strike either.

She had her own e-mail server, but I bet she did not run it.
Simple as it is, it's beyond the capabilities of any politician I can think of.

Then what does my @well.com account say?

Again, you fail to understand how statistics work, trying to address the single items, instead of the problem, which is that there is any fucking numbers of unforeseen things that can happen.

No matter how unlikely any single instance is to happen, or how easily it can be solved, there as such an enormous number of them, that they cannot be addressed due to the sheer scale.

Even if there's only 0.01% chance for an unexpected event happening any given minute, multiply that with the number of minutes and number of cars, and you'll end up with a huge number.

You can't solve that problem from the bottom up, addressing specifics.

True. A few hundred years down the road, I am sure that Hitchens will be remembered as one of the great pioneers for mankind to throw off its yoke.

Many of us have adjusted our side mirrors correctly, to point far more outwards than what most people do. Or even attach dead angle mirrors.
The rear view mirror is for a rear view - the side mirrors are for watching what's diagonally to the side. If you can see the side of your own car in the side mirrors, you're doing it wrong.

Never depend on being able to watch out the rear side window. That's a bad habit you need to stop. It may be blocked or not even there (pickup trucks). And by turning your head, you lose sight of what's even more dangerous - what's ahead of you.

Or how would the ones who witness the accident know whether there are passengers to rescue or not?

Would you break open the boot of a car on the off-chance that there's someone lying in there?

Indeed. I didn't owe my mother and father anything.
It wasn't concern for a non-existing me that made them fuck - it was pure lust on their part.

Now they don't exist, and I'm good with that.

It's worse than that. Mother's Day has turned into a day where every adult woman, whether a mother or not, expects to be treated as if it were their birthday.
There's already March 8 for women.

You don't understand statistics. It's not one specific unanticipated event that is the problem, it's that there are millions of them, all the time. You cannot focus one one particular one and scoff at that one, because that does nothing to any of the other millions of unanticipated events that occur. Just on my short drive to work today, I must have encountered at least a dozen unanticipated events.
- Pollen blocked a small part of my backing camera.
- A neighbor had blown a big pile of leaves onto the street. I had to drive around it.
- It started drizzling lightly. Too lightly for my car's auto-rain sensor to kick in.
- A police car without sirens, just blinking lights came in the opposite direction.
- A crow was pecking on roadkill.
- Children were "dancing" around on the sidewalk on their way to school. It's a 50 zone, but prudence told me 20 was plenty when driving past them.
- On an unmarked section of road, another driver didn't know the yield-to-right rule, and almost t-boned a car coming out on the road, swerving into the lane in front of me while (rather incorrectly) tooting his horn.
- Pollen and leaves covered exit lanes, lane markers and double yellow lines. Sometimes severely so. ... and probably lots of other things that I don't remember, because to me, the decisions are ones I just make without remembering them. Focusing on any one of these things is not useful, because there are so many of them. Every day. Every drive.

That any one of them is very low likelihood is irrelevant - it's the sheer number of very low likelihood events that occur that makes it a certainty that unexpected events will happen. And expert systems cannot deal with unexpected events the way humans can. Or, for that matter, even detecting that there is something unusual. Even a small detection failure rate multiplied with the number of possibilities makes for a staggering high number.

That they have thought of them doesn't imply they have any good answers.

The problem is that even if you can anticipate 90% of the things that can happen out there, there will always be a 10% you can't anticipate. You don't anticipate them as a driver either. There's no way for "the incredibly smart people" to make decisions ahead of time for things they cannot think of.

For humans, it takes a couple of decades of learning how to be a human, so you understand that if a policeman with a gun walks up to your car, you do not move, but if a shady looking person does the same, you gun it out of there. Or any other of unanticipated things that drivers encounter. Millions of them every day.

I think the war will be how fast and reliable they are. A system that's safer but takes longer to get people from A to B, or gives up and stops for any little thing in order to increase safety won't be too popular.

My life has only so many minutes. I don't want to spend more of them than I have to being slow cargo.

You are not considering the speed they're going at and which roads they are going on. It's easy to avoid accidents when going sub-25 speeds on a predefines subset of roads. Whether you're human or not.

Until we see some data on how autonomous cars do on all kinds of roads and driving speeds and conditions, I don't think we should extol their safety. Going 55 mph over a hilltop on a country road, or avoiding a deer is a bit different. Or a busy bumper-to-bumper city street where no-one will let you over in the next line unless you force the issue.

I'd also ask how long it took for the car to get from A to B, and how it compares to a human driver. Time is important to people; enough so that we're willing to deal with risks to save time.