They issue is absolutely with tech. Cars can drive themselves right now in good conditions and with a human taking over ASAP in case it fails and even that isn't working 100%. Put that self driving car on a mountain road or in deep snow and see what happens.

Also, if your bar for accidents is "slightly better than a drunk driver and even less accountable", sure, then we can fully deploy that right now. Unfortunately this really isn't sufficient and car companies are fully aware. There's a reason Mercedes made headlines by taking responsibility for the car for ten seconds after disengaging the auto pilot and why they're the only ones who are doing this so far.

I think this is a comment for which "sources needed" is kind of the bare minimum.

To most people, the "readiness" of self-driving cars doesn't even come about when they would accomplish parity with human drivers across all situations, because they should be better. And we're not even close to parity with human drivers across a large swath of common situations.

Unless you have links showing otherwise...

They works great when conditions are ok. As soon as there is an outstanding parameter they fail spectactularly.

We can also talk about AI support service crap with accounts banned/locked without the user having any way to know why or prove he didn't break any terms of the contracts.

Plus the approach. I'm not sure we need AI at all for self driving.