These people will gladly watch human driven cars continue to run over children as long as Google doesn't get to make any money.
Last year, in SF, an old woman driving a big SUV took out an entire family of four that was WAITING AT A BUS STOP. On the SIDEWALK.
She hasn't gone to jail. She hasn't really paid any fine. The neighborhood carefully formed the street renovation committee so that the family that died would have been excluded, but the driver that killed them would have a seat if she wanted it.
When they rant about how unfair it is to let a company test a robotaxi I can't help but feel they'd also look at this problem and say NBD.