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.