I wonder if this is as big of a problem as the author is making it out to be. I understand that the "right hook" kills a lot of cyclists, but I assume that's l

I wonder if this is as big of a problem as the author is making it out to be. I understand that the "right hook" kills a lot of cyclists, but I assume that's largely because of human driver blind-spots. Does the self-driving car have the same (or any) blind-spots? This behavior should probably be fixed regardless, but I doubt these Uber cars are all rolling murder machines like the author seems to believe.