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If you are 100% confident that you won't have an accident, you're deluding yourself. Unexpected phenomena like an animal crossing the road, a drunk or reckless driver driving against traffic or barging in from an intersection where you have the priority, etc. can get anyone.

If you are 100% confident that you won't have an accident, you're deluding yourself.

So? That's something humans tend to do, and anyone trying to sell self-driving cars will have to account for it.

I think that when, at some point, it will be proven that driverless cars are safer then the regulators should come in and simply ban humans from driving vehicles that do not expressly require to do "weird stuff".

Beliefs like this are what get people killed. People think they can drive safely far above the speed limit. People think they can drive safely in adverse conditions at unsafe speeds. They are wrong and get themselves and others maimed and killed every day. Their complete confidence doesn't save them, but is the root of the problem.

Then maybe you should update your belief instead of deluding yourself.