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Exactly this. Imagine you want to buy a car. You go to car dealer where they offer car that saves pedestrians 50% time and saves driver 50% time. Across the street different car dealer sells similar car except that it saves driver 100% time.

First dealer would run out of business very soon. Only safe car dealers would remain.

People buy cars all the time, now, that kill their drivers.

The drivers typically feel they have control and agency in their driving, though.

Couldn't that be simulated to fool people into thinking the same thing about autonomous vehicles?

It should be enough to show people that autonomous cars get into significantly fewer accidents. It's quite contrary to fooling them with agency, but it does support the safety-seeking choice of an autonomous vehicle over a manual one.

A moral self driving car should give the passenger the choice of who to kill.

Absolutely. Sure, minimize loss of all life where you can of course. But the purpose of the device is to protect the driver. If it can't even manage that it's broken.