The instant a driverless car veers off the road is the instant that pucker factor will return...well, for a few seconds until the person careens into a post or cliff or something else that kills them.
As a high-performance safety-critical engineer, there is no way I would design a driverless car and feel I have done the job needed. It simply cannot be done with today’s roadways and technologies. The error rate is still far too high to be considered safe.
Only if you are a journalist investigating the deep state.
I'm afraid of combining it with an Alexa-type AI...
"I don't think you should go to that restaurant, Dave. Your credit card balance is too high and you checking account is too low. Why don't you go to Denny's instead? Dave? I can read your lips, Dave..."
-PJ