Personally I am not a fan of self-driving tech, and the idea of actually riding around in city traffic in a car with no driver does not appeal to me at all.  Not saying I wouldn't do it, if I had to get to the hospital for instance and a self-driving taxi showed up at my door, I would probably get in it.

However, in fairness to this tech, it seems to have been operating fairly well without a whole lot of reports of death and highway mayhem so far.  There have been incidents though of collisions which supposedly were avoidable the highway safety folks are investigating.  The thing is, you have to compare this to the number of avoidable accidents human drivers have given the same number of miles driven.  The record doesn't have to be perfect, if self-driving does better overall than people do, that should be good enough.  Of course it wouldn't be if you were the passenger in the car that got in an accident and want to sue the car for unsafe driving. lol.

For a cripple, being able to order up a vehicle to come pick you up (wheelchair accessible) would be very handy, and if it came in at a price significantly cheaper than the Cripple Cabs that have human drivers, I might be persuaded to risk using one.  However,these cab services aren't generally much cheaper, the money saved on not having to pay human drivers is pocketed by the stockholders and CEO of these companies.  This of course is why Muskrat wants to turn Tesla into a Robotaxi service instead of an EV manufacturer.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-safety-probe-into-waymo-self-driving-vehicles-finds-more-incidents-2024-05-24/

US safety probe into Waymo self-driving vehicles finds more incidents

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