CGP Grey - The Simple Solution to Traffic

But then there's the vocal opposition to self driving cars, that states that a glitch in self driving cars would make it even more dangerous to drive, and with no human to manually stop the glitch, that error would be fatal. In addition, people feel safer driving, compared to riding roller coasters, where they don't have control, even though it is much more likely that you can die or get injured on a car, rather than riding on a roller coaster. People are afraid of putting their lives in the hands of autonomous systems, which aren't directly controlled by humans.