In the past 20-30 years, automotive engineers have invented a lot of ways to make cars much safer (e.g. crumple zones). It sounds like you're saying the design

In the past 20-30 years, automotive engineers have invented a lot of ways to make cars much safer (e.g. crumple zones). It sounds like you're saying the designers of self-driving cars will throw all of that expertise out the window -- I assure you that they will not.