Sending manufacturing jobs to China or anywhere else is almost always an attempt to increase profits for shareholders, not decrease prices.

Privately held pinball manufacturers have no such pressure, thankfully. But they would still rather increase profits than lower prices I'm sure, when people are willing to pay the current prices!

You believe wrong. With sensors 360 degrees around the vehicle and reaction times a hundred times better than a human's, dealing with erratic drivers is where self-driving technology shines. With pinpoint GPS and a database of where lights are, confusion from advertising would be nonexistent. Plus they are never impaired by alcohol or other drugs or even just tired. They'd always obey the speed limit, always signal, never be in a hurry or suffer road rage...

If I had a choice, I'd pick an Auto-Uber every time.

I'd rather deal with false positives than false negatives.

If my wife had been in a self-driving car on February 25 2010, or the semi had been self driving for that matter, I wouldn't be a widower. Of course that wasn't an option then or even now, really, but that's beside the point.

Stupid human errors cause way more wrecks than hypothetical sensor miscues ever would.