Human drivers already kill people at scale. Enormous scale. Far greater than that of the incidents of self-driving cars.

Ultimately it will come down to, who is safer?

Machine learning models for AVs are uploaded to whole fleet of vehicles, potentially causing thousands of identical accidents.

No two humans have identical brains, so every human-caused accident is unique.

In other words: human errors do not scale at all, fortunately.

> In other words: human errors do not scale at all, fortunately.

Worldwide there were over 1.3 million road deaths in 2016. That’s a pretty big scale.

Technology, even when deliberately employed to cause death, has rarely managed to cause such carnage.

I see your point, although I would argue that you could say the same thing about human factors like intoxication. Say there's a big drinking holiday, human-driven deaths go up due to people drink driving. Self-driving cars are immune to that factor.