Trusted in general. Trusted by people. Trusted by authorities.

I mean, there ought to be the point at which someone says, "this company has a long, consistent, documented history of antisocial behaviour and complete disrespect for law, therefore they shall not be allowed to work on this society-changing and life-critical technology". That this doesn't happen is, I feel, a failure of our society/regulatory apparatus.

I'd trust someone like UL.com - we trust them with a hell of a lot, why not this?

I’ve gotten 2 products UL certified, and I don’t think it’d be very useful for self-driving cars. The process seemed to be mainly reactive: only things that had caused frequent problems in the past were part of the standard.

For instance, plug-in devices must have fuses. The standard gives no guidance about the right size of fuses, but a reasonable engineer would of course pick a good size. The standard’s main effect is to avoid cutting safety features to save cost.

We shipped a mobile office robot. We sweated the details of it not running into people or crashing, but the UL cert only verified that we had fuses and flame-retardant plastics and the like.

that would be good, although it may take some time for the insurance companies to start requiring it