In the US alone more than 30K people die from traffic accidents per year. More than 7,000 of those are people under the age of 25, young, healthy, and the rest of their lives ahead of them if not for a stupid car accident made by human mistake (most road mortality is from alcohol consumption). So yeah, that's why we need self-driving cars!
source: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/LeadingCauses.html
I agree with this and strongly. I would add that we need to also consider the millions crippled, blinded and mamed as a result of automobile accidents. Safe self-driving cars is an imperative. We have been lulled into discounting 34,000 brutally, killed people each year. That's about a half million since the turn of the century. That's almost as bad as the deaths during the Civil War!