You can’t compare an aircraft auto pilot to cars the number of variables vs cars is immense
Altitude, speed, angle of attack, weight, air pressure, 3 dimensions vs 2, no signs, painted lines etc. Then there’s the sheer number of controls too flaps, gear, air brakes, throttles, ailerons and more. Also I think you’ll find most accidents aren’t actually the fault of the auto pilot but a fault of a sensor feeding it data and the failure to build in backups.
That’s the comparison side of things anyway so unless we get flying cars I really don’t think it’s as big a worry as you think.
I suspect children at schools will be infinitely safer in front of self driving cars than a human being we’ve already got aspects of it right now automated emergency braking for example.
I’ve literally seen kids killed in front of me as a kid, ran out between parked cars in front if school and that was that, a self driving car might’ve stopped in time.
I later witnessed an incident where a student on a bike was knocked off (and later died, different school) clipped by a car doing 60 again would a self driving car have avoided it?
I will wager that most of those against self driving have never been involved with a car accident that has resulted in serious injury or death, just a guess. I don’t think they should be given carte Blanche to just go for it but certainly on inner city predictable routes they’ll start to learn. You also have to bare in mind I suspect there will be an element of ai involved starting these cars off in light or night traffic so they learn to improve accuracy.
Cars have come a long way with tech relatively recently being able to have an active speed limiter adapting to the lint where you are, emergency braking and more.
Children are killed on our roads every single day I’m not really sure why you’re picking out if one is or using killed by an auto driving car or not does that really matter to a family that’s lost a child? It could be if someone steps out they’d be hit regardless we have to remember an incident dissent automatically make a driver guilty and in the same way an incident involving self driving should not automatically become the fault if a computer.
How many hear of a Tesla crash and think auto pilot as first reaction?
Honestly given the way so many drive on our roads id take a self driving car over them every time. I used to enjoy driving, the true freedom etc now honestly I hate it because it’s do stressful nearly every time I go out.
Each to their own but this is going to happen whatever your position on it