Undoubtedly, but the evidence that self driving cars will reduce these near misses and actual accidents is singularly lacking. I suspect that one of the factors influencing the fact that you see a lot of near misses is that only a small proportion of the errors that cause these actually result in an accident. This is particularly the case in that you do not see most of the near misses - the driver whose mind wanders and then the car does - but there was nothing coming the other way, or the driver who failed to look at an intersection and got away with it because there was nothing there etc.
Some of these sorts of errors will be avoided by self driving cars - but they will undoubtedly introduce ones of their own, which we don't know about yet. Although some of them are already known - for example, recent tests have shown that no current self driving prototypes can reliably tell whether a vehicle in front of them is stationary, unless it has already identified it while it was moving.
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