[Dah00n]

Do you have a statistic to show this last part? The only stats I have seen are with self-drive in "clean" areas versus a stat from "everywhere". Most self-driving cars don't run in bad areas of Detroit or Bombay but people driven stats count these areas too.

[enigmurl]

I was speaking somewhat hypothetically, as for now I would agree that it's tenuous at best to call self driving cars safer. My point was more that even if they were provably safer, people would have ego problems in claiming they are more dangerous than self driving cars.