This is my biggest fear with self-driving cars. Correlated failures. As a society we are extremely good at dealing with independent accidents. We can calculate very precisely how many people will die of traffic in a given year and we can account for it, we can have insurances, and we can decide exactly how much we are willing to spend to save a life on the margin.
But if everything is fine, everything is fine, everything is fine, and then all hell breaks lose? We are not as good at dealing with that.
But if everything is fine, everything is fine, everything is fine, and then all hell breaks lose? We are not as good at dealing with that.