[rootusrootus]

Cars are actually quite safe if you consider how much we use them. Your odds of dying in a car accident are quite low. Given that robocars have their own trade-offs, I don't think it's too surprising that some people will elect to continue to buy human-driven cars indefinitely if given the choice.

[kazagistar]

My odds of dying in a car are much higher then almost anything else in the short term. If there is anything to rationally optimize for, it is car safety.

[rootusrootus]

I think maybe you are missing a whole bunch of other risks in your life that are more likely to take your life.

How much do you worry about dying from a fall, or poison, or alcohol, or drugs? Or a firearm? All of those are either similar to or more likely than dying in a car accident.

If you want to rationally optimize for something that will improve your survival odds, heart health is by a vast, vast margin a better place to spend your efforts.

If you drive an average number of miles per year, you will probably be involved in some kind of accident once every decade. The odds you will die in that accident are pretty low, as it only happens about once every 100,000,000 miles driven.

[icc97]

They may be 'safe' for the people in the car, but not for the people who get hit.

It's cars crashing into bicycles, pedestrians or buses (causing the buses to avoid them and crash) that are the major issue.

The people who die in car crashes are innocent healthy people. Often killed by people who never think how dangerous cars are and assume that they themselves are safe.

One of the major bus crashes [0] was caused by a drunk SUV driver over taking a bus too fast in the rain, losing control, crashing into the bus and killing numerous passengers. The SUV driver only suffered slight injuries.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benalm%C3%A1dena_coach_crash