In 2016, Waymo cars drove 636,000 miles with 124 disengagements [1].
Uber’s autonomous cars drove 20,354 miles and had to be taken over at every mile [2].
Uber is a menace.
[1] https://www.wired.com/2017/02/california-dmv-autonomous-car-...
[2] http://www.recode.net/2017/3/16/14938116/uber-travis-kalanic...
For example, I believe Waymo cars drive mostly on a fixed number of preplanned routes. You would expect limited disengagements over time, as it's got tons of data on those specific routes.
It's probably fair to say that, in the course of a day, many of us are in driving situations where we avoid potentially dangerous situations whether or not it might technically have been someone else's fault were there an accident. Most of us (hopefully) learn to drive defensively to minimize the likelihood of an accident, not to take whatever space on a road we have a "right" to.
> If I need to break traffic laws to avoid hitting another vehicle, or being struck, that's easy.
IMO based on anecdotes and observation, not enough people do that because of the "it's not my fault" attitude. The first consideration is fault, the second is safety.
In short, accidents of all varieties are hard to classify. In this case, though you seem to vastly underestimate the numbers involved. According to latest reports [0], the Uber program is only driving about 20K miles a week. Further more, the rate of human-interventions is about once every MILE.
Normal human driving is bad, of course. But how many times in the last 1,000 miles you've driven have you needed your passenger to intervene to prevent an accident?
[0] http://www.recode.net/2017/3/16/14938116/uber-travis-kalanic...