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Accidents will happen, that is inevitable. Autonomous cars don't have to be perfect - they only have to be better than humans and that bar is not set very high.

There are very little examples of autonomous cars causing trouble on the road and plenty of them preventing accidents - an example would be videos on youtube showing Teslas predicting accidents in advance and taking action.

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> they only have to be better than humans and that bar is not set very high

Not to rehash this discussion, but: the bar is actually set very high, and current self-driving tests are seemingly not meeting it. There's a lot of deaths because there's a whole lot of driving.

Give humans credit where it's due.

> they only have to be better than humans and that bar is not set very high

It’s not, but driverless car manufacturers seem intent on pushing their cars out before even reaching that low bar.

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