As a very rational person (no doubt like many of you) I am cautious to explore my 'gut' feelings with a critical eye. Often 'gut' feelings can be misleading or at least alleviated by further info.

In autopilots case, and more generally with autonomous driving, I just can't shake the gut feeling that we're much much further away from achieving true autonomous safety than many people are saying.

I think I might be predisposed to ultra-conservatism (small c) with automobile safety, so that might be playing it's part I guess.