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You also have to consider potential problems with the cars themselves, in terms of engineering and software, as well as potential issues with networking, weather, inaccurate satellite data, etc. It would be a vastly more interconnected and complex system than the one which already exists.

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But you're also seemingly forgetting that cars these days are very safe, with airbags, seat belts, crumple zones, roll bars... this whole 'should it kill you' is not likely an issue these days. Look at all those idiots who crashed their cars going 80mph and lived to tell about it (tesla for example). The point being that if a car controlled the crash, your chances of survival are far better. So it's an option of killing someone or having a controlled crash, not 'kill or be killed'.

Ok, that's fair. The chances of autonomous cars ever being built with fewer safety features than currently exist is pretty much nil.

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