Autonomous vehicles endanger everybody around them. If electric, those vehicles weigh well over 2 tonnes and have the potential to kill people even inside other vehicles.
"Some of you may die but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make" is not a good motto.
Of course we do. You can go to a grocery store and buy plenty sugary drinks to kill yourself slowly.
Or you can buy a car and drive full speed into a wall.
Or you can join a fitness cult and excercise so much you die from it.
Or to stay at topic you can build your own airplane. The unnoficial motto of the faa experimental regulations is that everyone is entitled to pick their own funeral. The regulations are not designed to keep you safe, but to keep others safe.
But it’s clear we do this “for your own good” falsely often.