Self-driving cars offer a plethora of safety advantages over our accustomed human-driven ones, yet many individuals feel uneasy sharing the road with these machines and entrusting their lives to their driving capabilities. Thus, bringing about a widespread adoption of autonomous cars requires overcoming these compulsions through careful planning and forethought. Here we break down the three primary psychological barriers that may hamstring or even wholly prevent their widespread adoption as well as how to tackle them.