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Can't both be true? Per capita, aren't self driving cars causing fewer accidents than human drivers? I feel like it's possible that the accidents caused by self driving cars are dumber and more obviously and easily preventable by a human, and that there aren't enough safety nets and that they shouldn't be legal because of these reasons... but also... human drivers suck. In addition to people who shouldn't be driving in the first place (drunk, elderly, sleep deprived, etc.) there's a billion things that easily distract people that machines aren't susceptible to.
This feels like comparing car accidents to plane accidents. You're MUCH more likely to get in a car accident, but more people are afraid of flying, since every plane accident is newsworthy on an international scale and most car accidents (including fatal ones) are (sadly) commonplace and not always even covered by local news.
Self driving cars are only allowed to drive in sunny Pheonix and California and give up if anything gets hard. Tesla's self driving bails if it's panics just before the accident so that Tesla can say it was the operators fault. This skews the numbers.