[alkonaut]

Exactly this. I'd go so far as to also include honest mistakes. I'd rather have 10x the risk of being killed by a human making a mistake, than by a computer with a bug. The human making the mistake has a skin in the game (they are physically involved in the accident). Accidents happen, but I know humans try to avoid them.

Being killed by a piece of obsolete AI-code done by the lowest bidder for a company that went bankrupt 10 years ago seems much worse.

So not only will AI drivers need to be as good as human drivers, they need to be orders of magnitude better before we'll accept them.

[AnimalMuppet]

I think I'm the opposite. I'd take the 10x reduction in the probability of dying. I'd take it for myself (I think I'm a fairly good driver, but I know I'm not as safe as I should be). And I'd take it for the 90% of deaths it would save, even if they aren't me. Those other lives matter, too.