Yes there are some where the car was not at fault. Then there's the one where the Uber car was clearly at fault - and had the safety driver been paying attention we would never have heard of it since she would have stopped the car and nothing would have happened. Now we're going to get (if I'm understanding this correctly) autonomous cars without a safety driver - imagine being a passenger in a car you know is crashing for no reason and can't do anything about it!
I agree the insurance industry will play a big part, but only when self driving cars are ready for prime time. They are not, Waymo/Google is just pushing for the publicity of being "first", and will regret it when the inevitable accident occurs and causes public opinion to sour on using public roads for beta testing products not ready for prime time, where program bugs mean someone can get killed.
Those who think autonomous cars only need to be better than human driven cars are not thinking straight. They will need to be about 10x better - because most people believe they are above average drivers, and most accidents occur due to distracted, tired, drunk etc. humans - the cars need to be better drivers than the best fully attentive human drivers before they will begin to be accepted by the general public.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
