content: What you have just described is completely possible now simply by paying off your bus or taxi driver or airline pilot.  It is very normal for humans to feel uncomfortable with giving up direct control, that is why airline travel - though statistically safer than driving - is perceived as more dangerous than driving. When we scale up from the tribal mindset that is intuitive to us though, we must accept statistical data over our instinct. With millions of people on the road, all capable of being distracted by the slightest thing, making imperfect observations about their surroundings and having a much greater reaction time(and less calculated reaction plan) than a computer, we need to put the safety of the majority(and indeed ourselves, as a subset of that) ahead of our primal urges. Self driven cars have a proven track record of being safer than human drivers, and this is only going to get better as more data is acquired and systems are improved.