So you mean that human-driven cars would never get t-boned by a truck that ran a red light? Or that the odds are infintesimal?
Obviously not but I'd rather trust my intuition. The self driving car has the right of way and ignores the truck. In the same situation I know I have the right of way but I'm making a judgement on whether the truck is going to stop or whether we'll be at the intersection at the same time. Its part of the defensive driving that was pounded into our heads in driver training.
There are no worse drivers on the road than the offensive drivers who will take their right of way at any cost. They're the idiots who refuse to move to the left lane, slow down or speed up to allow cars to merge onto the freeway. My sister is mad at me now for saying she deserved the ticket she got when she rear ended a guy who cut her off and spiked his brakes. She took it to court and lost exactly as I predicted she would.
My mom's idiot husband wrecked a car a few years ago. He was following (too close) a guy who suddenly turned off onto the shoulder of the road. The idiot husband continued at speed and hit the leading car when it turned back out across the lane to complete his illegal U-turn. It was the leading car's obvious fault but it wouldn't have happened if I had been driving the trailing car. I would have immediately slowed down to see what the guy in the lead car was doing.
Just today I was sitting at a stop sign and didn't pull out in front of the truck coming from the left with his turn signal on. Had I assumed his turn signal meant he was going to turn I would have turned in front of him and he would have driven into my lap.