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Your data and comparison is bad. Just bad and wrong.

Autopilot deaths vs all car crash death? When Tesla is <1% of cars on the road? And that 19 is just autopilot not all involving a Tesla, the stat your comparing to??

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If you wanted to save lives, you would focus on the low hanging fruit in the 43K deaths per year, not the 2.5 deaths per year. You could save 5 times more lives by banning all vending machines in the US or by making them safer when they fall than by banning AutoPilot, since they directly kill about 13 people a year by falling on them.

That's not even counting the number of lives potentially saved by AutoPilot because human drivers cause 43K/deaths a year.

You are still comparing meaningless numbers. If Tesla assisted driving systems are less safe then the rest that is where the focus should be, and last I checked 70% of accidents involving driver assisted systems where teslas, and they are only 1% of cars on the road.

That is a HUGE problem and 100% where regulation should be focusing.

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/tesla-us-car...

If there are only 2.5 fatalities a year with 70% share then those are great numbers.

Again, you are making wild assumptions as you have no idea what it is for the 30%, it could be .5.

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