I also love how all the self-driving car enthusiasts talk about the computers as though they're infallible. How does a self driving car deal with a sensor fail

I also love how all the self-driving car enthusiasts talk about the computers as though they're infallible. How does a self driving car deal with a sensor failure? Will people be OK with it? What if I want to take over the car to avoid a wreck, but the car won't let me for some reason? Yes these are corner cases and yes corner cases are by definition rare. But the majority of people who buy term life insurance when they're in their 20s or 30s are at VERY low risk of dying. So why are they being so obviously stupid? Because it's actually not stupid! So just because the odds of dying are small people still buy insurance. I can't see how self driving cars are terribly different. I could die accidentally by my own hand with a small probability, or I could die at the whim of a computer with also a small probability (granted quite possibly smaller). Over the course of my driving career I've had no accidents and narrowly avoided plenty of them. I also know people who have had several. I am already substantially more safe than the worst drivers, and as a result also substantially safer than the average driver because as far as I can tell, it's a bimodal distribution. Either you're an awful driver, or you're above average. Getting the wreck-every-2-years person off the road is a great goal for self-driving cars. But because it's a bimodal distribution (or so I suspect) getting a self-driving car to be better than the average driver doesn't make it better than most, it's just better than the horrible drivers. I'd be much more inclined to think positively about self-driving cars once they're much better than the good driver population rather than being better than the bad driver population.