Consumers care somewhat about safe cars, and if safety is mostly an externality then legislators may be willing to regulate it, and there are only so many developers and if the moral case is clear enough and the costs low enough then the leaders might all make that investment.
At the other extreme, if you have no idea how to build a safe car, then there is no way that anyone is going to use a safe car no matter how much people care. Success is a combination of making safety easy and getting people to care / regulating / etc.
If you have “competitive” solutions, then the required social coordination may be fairly mild. As a stylized example, if the leaders in the field are willing to invest in safety, then you could imagine surviving a degree of non-competitiveness in line with the size of their lead (though the situation is a bit messier than that).
Thanks, this and particularly the Medium post was helpful.
So to restate what I think your model around this is, it’s “the efficiency gap determines how tractable social solutions will be (if < 10% they seem much more tractable), and technical safety work can change the efficiency gap.”
Consumers care somewhat about safe cars, and if safety is mostly an externality then legislators may be willing to regulate it, and there are only so many developers and if the moral case is clear enough and the costs low enough then the leaders might all make that investment.
At the other extreme, if you have no idea how to build a safe car, then there is no way that anyone is going to use a safe car no matter how much people care. Success is a combination of making safety easy and getting people to care / regulating / etc.
Here is the post I wrote about this.
If you have “competitive” solutions, then the required social coordination may be fairly mild. As a stylized example, if the leaders in the field are willing to invest in safety, then you could imagine surviving a degree of non-competitiveness in line with the size of their lead (though the situation is a bit messier than that).
Thanks, this and particularly the Medium post was helpful.
So to restate what I think your model around this is, it’s “the efficiency gap determines how tractable social solutions will be (if < 10% they seem much more tractable), and technical safety work can change the efficiency gap.”