The benefit comes from automated driving systems being able to handle emergency out-of-control situations safely and predictably, not in regularly being driven

The benefit comes from automated driving systems being able to handle emergency out-of-control situations safely and predictably, not in regularly being driven around like this. Let's say you're in a self-driving car and get pegged and flung across a highway by another car going 20 mph faster than you. In this case, a driver with high performance training would be better able to land the crash than an average driver that panics and makes unsafe corrective inputs. You want the self-driving car to be able to respond like the high performance driver, which means knowing how to safely drift.