The people who argue that driverless cars can't match humans have a real double standard going. They talk about all the conditions like snow and edge cases that

The people who argue that driverless cars can't match humans have a real double standard going. They talk about all the conditions like snow and edge cases that driverless cars can't handle now. But they have nothing to say about all the real conditions that everyday make human-driven cars unsafe, like lack of sleep, alcohol or illegal drugs, youthful showing off, road rage, texting, arguing with a passenger, old age, poor vision, and so on. Remember, the problem is not to make driverless cars perfect, it is to make them as good as humans, and that is much easier. Also, let's remember, the transition to driverless cars will not come all at once, with all vehicles handling all conditions. Instead we will gets lot of partial, easier cases, like a truck that drives only along a well-mapped route, or people using it only when weather conditions are reasonably good, and so on. As the AI and sensors improve, new uses will be added, until eventually we get it to be universal, or nearly so. And finally there is the likelihood of infrastructure improvements to make it easier. So want we are going to have is not suddenly one day driverless cars take over, rather a gradual increase in their use.