The thing about self driving cars is that every accident will have a wealth of information in regards to how it occurred and the decision making that went into

The thing about self driving cars is that every accident will have a wealth of information in regards to how it occurred and the decision making that went into it. Once we understand and correct the problem every subsequent car will be safer. This is not the case with humans whom regularly fail to learn from consequences to other humans. Imagine if the first time someone fell asleep at the wheel and crashed, you could just tell everyone "hey don't fall asleep at the wheel". And it just never happened again.