"Point is, until all cars on the road are self-driving, it doesn’t matter how great the technology is; it’s not going to be safe, because humans don’t drive like machines."

Why is an editor not stepping in to stop the columnist going to print with blatant untruths? i.e. 'fake news'?

Even in a mixed population of manual and autonomous control, the computers will be able to react to another driver's errors in milliseconds, instead of several tenths of a second.