An engineering professor warned that people trust self-driving technology so much it’s ‘injuring them or killing them’ a day before Tesla’s massive recall

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With more and more car companies putting their self-driving vehicle models on the road, experts are sounding the alarm that some of these cars may be doing more harm than good to drivers.

Elon Musk’s Tesla won’t be the only game in town anymore when it comes to self-driving cars over the next few years. The number of cars in the world with autonomous driving characteristics is set to grow from 20.3 million in 2021 to 62.4 million by 2030, according to a recent report by a markets research firm, and newer companies like Tesla and Uber have been joined by a growing slate of traditional carmakers including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and General Motors, which plan to launch their own self-driving concepts within the next few years.