Seeing all the near-misses and life saving interventions on YouTube involving Tesla vehicles, 1 death seems not such a bad result..
The question should be - how many lives were saved by this system vs how many would die if driven "normally"?
The question should be - how many lives were saved by this system vs how many would die if driven "normally"?
It is also necessary to project this into the future, i.e. looking at the integral of expected lives lost 'rushing' self driving cars vs. 'waiting-and-seeing' (as Americans die at a rate of 40,000 per annum).
If twice as many people die for a fixed number of years to create a self driving system that results in half the fatality rate of the status quo, that becomes worth it very, very quickly.
For example: it's not morally equivalent to die while drunk driving at 150 km/h vs dying as a pedestrian because someone ran over you.
I would prefer 10 drunk drivers die instead of just one innocent person.