All of your points are valid, and seem to be backed up by data, but only apply to urban driving. In my opinion, the majority of the benefit from safety tech is

All of your points are valid, and seem to be backed up by data, but only apply to urban driving. In my opinion, the majority of the benefit from safety tech is in parking lots or the highway. You don't need blind spot monitoring or adaptive cruise control on a stop-and-go single lane city street. These features only make sense cruising at highway speed or pulling out of a parking spot. It's possible that ""full"" self driving cars will make drivers feel less responsible in the cities. I think the transition to genuinely autonomous cars is going to be slow and painful regardless.