It’s crazy to think about but the iPhone is only 18 years old. Before that I don’t think we were so attached.
No, it’s not that they tend to do much worse. It’s that they get news coverage. Quite frequently in my area there’s a drunk driver that goes down the wrong side of the highway and gets into a head on killing someone. When’s the last time you heard of a Waymo going down the wrong side of the highway and killing someone? One hit a pole a while back and it made national news.