It’s becoming increasingly apparent that Level 2 “self driving” cars are quite simply dangerous. The most recent incident (involving a Tesla model S which crashed in to a parked police car) has highlighted that partially automating the complex task of “driving” is potentially worse than not automating it at all (http://uk.businessinsider.com/teslas-autopilot-faces-scrutiny-after-accidents-2018-5). But the “paradox of automation” is not a new phenomena – economist Tim Harford has previously written about this problem (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/crash-how-computers-are-setting-us-up-disaster), and Alphabet has chosen to skip Level 2 automation entirely, heading straight for vehicles which need no human intervention at all (“level 4” and beyond) http://www.thedrive.com/tech/15848/waymo-is-already-running-cars-with-no-one-behind-the-wheel