But I would note that we are already settling for "good enough" by letting those responsible adults cause 6 million accidents and 40,000 deaths.
Tesla's Autopilot is worse. But people aren't great.
I hold out a tiny modicum of hope that the cars will get better. If not Elmo's version, then somebody's. Because the people are not getting better, and are arguably getting worse.
Sci-fi aside: We probably will see a slow but very steady increase of such events in the coming years with more unnecessary automation applied everywhere.