It would nonetheless also be accurate to describe it as a possible danger, because the danger only manifests in certain circumstances.

> So what I mean is, the autopilot could turn out to be safer than manual, in my mind, so how is it "inherently" dangerous.

That could well be the case but I don't think it eliminates the inherent danger. Maybe it's less dangerous, but cars on the road are just kind of dangerous in general.

I think it's also very generous to assume that the early auto pilot car systems we have today are necessarily safer than human drivers. Emergency braking is almost certainly a net gain. Self driving might be or might not be. A self driving add-on cooked up by geohot? I'm doubtful it's yet gone through the kind of engineering rigor we'd expect of a system like this.

In the same way that the ocean is still inherently dangerous even if you're wearing a life jacket, or how airplanes are still inherently dangerous even though aircraft autopilot systems are effectively mainstream at this point.

Just like a piano suspended from a rope is inherently dangerous. The danger may not manifest at all for that to be the case.