No, he means when the car is advanced enough to be able to detect things like kids chasing a ball into the street, and how it decides whether or not to try to swerve to avoid the kid and thereby cause a head-on collision with an oncoming minivan, potentially killing its occupants.
But yeah, putting all truckers out of work is also a thing worth being concerned about. Automation on such a large scale is going to do some pretty screwball things to the economy.
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