Toyota executive: Self-driving cars could kill 100s but save tens of thousands (usatoday.com)

It's interesting that the issue becomes one of picking the lesser evil, isn't it. I'm a perfectionist, in the sense that I think we can always do better, but there is a cost to that, too, so I don't continue forever on a path of improvement (which makes for straight roads, as William Blake pointed out).

I would prefer whatever is more predictable. My feeling is autonomous vehicles will be more predictable, therefore, so long as I as cyclist obey the rules of the roads, as I expect autonomous vehicles to do exceedingly well, then can expect to have fewer deviations from expectations when interacting with autonomous vehicles on the roads. Win-win!