It's pretty rare though. It's far more likely that the taxi driver will be killed by a passenger.

In a typical year, NYC's human-driver taxis had a fatal-or critical-injury crash rate 3x the overall US average: https://www.ingberprovost.com/how-often-do-taxis-crash/

The US average is about 36,000 auto-caused fatalities per year: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...