A question for you, and all self-driving safety proponents. If Tesla's FSD cars are so safe, why are they not taking the liability of the cars. Why have only a regular car insurance punted on to the owners? When the manufacturers of self-driving cars roll out liability of all owners, or taxi services with a monitoring driver with no liability, is the time when self-driving is actually available. Till then it is vaporware.

So we should do absolutely nothing to improve the safety of cars (both for people inside and outside the vehicles) until magic self-driving cars provide the solution for all our problems?

There's plenty that can be done to make driving safer. Traffic calming measures. Stricter enforcement of traffic laws. Redesigning dangerous intersections. There's no need to wait for self-driving cars, and I suspect that you'll save far more lives by actually doing that stuff instead of hoping self-driving cars might solve the problem for you someday in the future.

Yep, and on another level of importance but still important within that level, untold hours of human idleness and boredom sitting behind the wheel. I think drudgery is not too strong a word.

Radar and AI does not fix the problem of cars being a dangerous way to travel.