Driving behavior and patterns are important for safety too, when you assume that it's not the google AV's fault that it gets rear-ended you may be wrong. If a h

Driving behavior and patterns are important for safety too, when you assume that it's not the google AV's fault that it gets rear-ended you may be wrong. If a human driver sees more than the AV (has a bigger brain, more experience) and is able to better asses a situation, the human might not see why the AV is stopping, having assessed correctly that the way is clear. It is the AV's fault for not being smart enough, and thus acting erratically by normal driving standards and patterns. I knew several people in the UK when we were learning to drive who failed their test because the tester thought them too cautious and therefore not confident enough to avoid an accident. Reading on the subject of self driving cars, one gets the impression that there is a auto-assumption that human drivers must all be idiots who should never, ever have been allowed behind the wheel, but that probably isn't the case. I'm not saying the roads will be any less safe with AVs, but let's not believe all the Utopian propaganda of the businesses selling us this product.