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An ex-coworker now at [redacted autonomous vehicle company] just tried to convince me to come work for them. Obviously I declined.

In case it wasn't obvious to anyone else, let me just state in plain English: there is no amount of money that will get me to build self-driving cars for you. The bigger the number the harder I'll decline.

I don't even like sharing the road with L2 ADAS equipped vehicles. The last thing I want to do is contribute to making the problem worse.

Now, if you wanted me to work on a fully human-controlled EV with no telematics or automation, designed for repairability with a 30+ year target lifespan, and redundant sensing and actuation and triple redundant lockstep CPUs on safety-critical components like ABS? Maybe we can talk.

But self-driving cars are probably one step above "DRM'd medical devices that stop working if you don't pay a subscription fee" on my "these should not exist and I will not lift a finger to help you create them" list.