The fear is irrational because even now you can always be hit by other drivers who are not as careful as you. In my home town, certain people are driving like c

The fear is irrational because even now you can always be hit by other drivers who are not as careful as you. In my home town, certain people are driving like crazy.. Ignoring traffic lights, going to fast, call or text during driving, etcetera. With autonomous driving, these people can game, work, drink etc instead. The main benefit of AI is that it drives more predictable and follows the traffic rules. Furthermore, cars themselves have become safer. If you look to traffic fatalities per country. You can observe that modern countries have less fatalities. Because of airbags, cripple zones, safer knocking of pedestrians.. And also traffic rules. To conclude, even though sensors might fail, they are better than human sensors.