> If I am to serve a 1 year prison sentence for faulty code or a deprecated LIDAR sensor, I don't see in what scenario I would be willing to leave my fate in the hands of a self-driving car manufacturer.

What if we came up with a reasonably objective test of driver skill and the car outperforms you?

This is and remains the standard argument - the car doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to beat a human having a bad day. If you are worried about the liability, maybe keep the car serviced and sit in the drivers seat and look out of the window instead of watching a movie. Tell the car to dive slowly maybe.

I feel sorry for the driver who is creating this precedent, but this is hardly a road block. The average human is not a great driver.