I'd assume that companies would only be responsible for accidents with self-driving cars they themselves own. Hardly "every single accident that happens in the entire country."My issue with self-driving cars was never based on a belief that they'll never get smart enough to be safer than human drivers. They're probably there already. The problem is that nobody's legally liable for the accidents they inevitably will get into, as few as they may be. And no company wants to be in the business of selling self-driving cars if they're going to have to pay for every single accident that happens in the entire country, even if it's one tenth as many as there are now. Even if it's one one hundredth as many.
Self-driving cars also can't really account for the stupidity of the humans with whom they share the roads.