Part of what he's describing is coincidence/confirmation bias, but another part of it is probably some sort of cognition that happens at a level of the mind the driver is not conscious of.
I have not been following the development of self-driving car tech very closely, but I have some familiarity with the difficulty of the challenges involved and I have a feeling that we are at least two decades away from having fully autonomous tech authorized for use on public roads. Am I underestimating the progress of the tech? I have the impression that there is a tremendous amount of unjustified hype in this field.