&quot;PS: If human drivers where not killing 20,000 Americans a year then we might debate perfection. Until then, self driving cars that kill 1,000 people per month would be a massive improvement end of story.&quot;<p>This is the biggest faulty argument in this entire discussion.<p>Imagine a radiotherapy machine. Statistically, due to operator errors, it delivers lethal dose of radiation to 1 patient every 10k patients. Then someone brings out a radiotherapy machine that doesn&#x27;t need an operator, but statistically delivers a lethal dose of radiation every 100k patients. That machine would be banned faster than you can say litigation, even though statistically it saves lives vs. manually operated machines.<p>As soon as an automatic car kills the first person(be it due to faulty programming or mechanical breakdown) the manufacturer will recall all of them and the backlash will be huge, even if an average, they are still thousand times safer than manual cars.