Autonomous cars will crash in situations where humans wouldn't, but the opposite is also true. Autonomous cars don't fall asleep, drive drunk, or get distracted

Autonomous cars will crash in situations where humans wouldn't, but the opposite is also true. Autonomous cars don't fall asleep, drive drunk, or get distracted on their phones. Personally I try to stay alert while I drive, so I feel I'm safer driving myself than letting the machine do it. But I'm less confident that the best autonomous cars will have more accidents than humans in general, and they're improving all the time.