I wonder if *maybe* there is some unethical testing going on with autonomous cars.
I remember that there was this local story years ago in the news, that told about how a paramedic supposedly decided to go against the testing regime that was in progress with the use of a drug in ambulances, for being injected into people with cardiac arrest (as I remember it), and so, the paramedic when performing life saving tasks, was supposed to simply open an envelope that they carried with them, and there it would state, to issue the drug this once, or not. Obviously, the idea was to get some statistical data on the efficiency on the drug, instead of doing the best to save the patient.
So, this makes me wonder if maybe they test autonomous cars, with limited capabilities to see what works best.
I have also been wondering myself, if maybe manufacturers of vaccines are able to develop regional variants, that in a similar way, can be used for testing, which would be unethical if being experimental, if people taking such a drug (which might not exist) in good faith of it working as expected.