It’s ironic that “safe street” activists are protesting against technology that produces safer streets. “That one time the self driving car blocked a fire truc

It’s ironic that “safe street” activists are protesting against technology that produces safer streets. “That one time the self driving car blocked a fire truck”, sure, but statistically on a per-rider basis are we seeing more or less harm/mischief than with human drivers or taxis? I haven’t seen any credible analysis of this question. Similarly “they killed one person”, ok, how many human drivers killed pedestrians last year? You’ll find it’s more than self-driving cars, but again we need the per-rider (really, per passenger-mile driven) statistics. A general pattern - even if self-driving cars were 10x safer, there would still be pushback if they are sub-human in any single niche case. We will cause many (thousands) people to die by being irrational like this. Not to dismiss the concerns - they just need to be quantified and taken in context.