Don't forget manufacturer liability. 100x safer self-driving cars would still cause 330 deaths and 22,000 injuries per year. Each one of those could result in a

Don't forget manufacturer liability. 100x safer self-driving cars would still cause 330 deaths and 22,000 injuries per year. Each one of those could result in a negligence lawsuit against the manufacturer. Even in the case of "mostly" autonomous vehicles where it could be argued that the human driver was lulled into complacency. And it's unclear if the insurance industry would shoulder that like they do human errors. Serious accidents can bankrupt responsible people after insurance is exhausted, and those would all now be concentrated on manufacturers with much deeper pockets. Plus there's all the single-vehicle accidents which currently don't result in lawsuits, but would with autonomous vehicles.