//At worst there'd be the same number. //
How can you even start to make that estimate. Do you have inside information or are you able to see into the future?
But, what I was getting at is that as TTT alluded to who would be responsible in the event of an accident, the owner, the car maker, the man who serviced it. Maybe now the cyclist could be held to account or the pedestrian?
So many questions and possibilities coupled with new laws to enable the use of driverless cars means lawyers will make a mint fighting to set the precedents - as usually happens with all new laws (usually full of holes) or products.