Not great. I remember reading an article that the most sucessful self driving company literally sued a DMV to keep its details under wraps! How's that for transparent, responsible behavior? It would be easy to say your regulators and politicians aren't sleeping at the wheel - they're helping run you over. Or is that hyperbolic?

A bit hyperbolic. Over the longer term self driving tech will probably be a major benefit for road safety.

Excluding the level 3, driver is supposed to be in charge stuff, I can recall one death in autonomous driving research - the one that ended Uber's program. For comparison last year the US recorded 39,345 motor vehicle traffic fatalities.