They shouldn't be harming lives to pursue this.
But if you think this line of reasoning through, cars should have never been admitted on the road in the first place.
The issue I see is lack of transparency. If the % of accidents that can be avoided is provably much higher than those caused by Tesla's self-driving tech, an informed argument could be made in favor or against.
But with Tesla withholding the information in the leak there is just FUD around the whole issue instead of facts.
other manufacturers are slowly rolling out more self driving like tech, AND taking on liability.
People do realize it. Especially people who specialize in building safety critical systems.
And they are all aware that Tesla's doesn't do anything to build actually safety-critical systems. They just treat it as building a webapp for sharing photos of cats.
It’s a whole engineering discipline. Just Google safety critical systems and safety engineering.
In terms of automotive, ISO 26262. Tesla’s chaotic release process and hot fixes are definitive proof that they don’t do safety life cycle and change management in compliance with it.