Would you still want one if the data showed it was more dangerous than driving yourself around? We don't yet know if it will be, is my point.
I realize that what I wrote above makes it look like I'm saying that no person wants a self-driving car at all. As you point out, that's not true.
What I was trying to say is that, for most people, safety is a bigger consideration than self-driving capability. If a company said "our car drives itself but you're more likely to die in it," I doubt they would sell many.
> Would you still want one if the data showed it was more dangerous than driving yourself around? We don't yet know if it will be
While we might not know yet whether self-driving cars are /already/ safer than human drivers, it is virtually impossible that they won't become much safer very quick. Simply because bugs in software can (and will) be fixed, each car gets an update, and the accident in question won't happen again, ever. Humans, on the other hand, cannot be updated easily, if at all.
This is pure supposition, and not supported by any evidence. We've been fixing bugs in software for decades but we are still finding serious bugs all the time.
I realize that what I wrote above makes it look like I'm saying that no person wants a self-driving car at all. As you point out, that's not true.
What I was trying to say is that, for most people, safety is a bigger consideration than self-driving capability. If a company said "our car drives itself but you're more likely to die in it," I doubt they would sell many.