[mozumder]

It's much, much worse than that, since that 37,461 deaths number includes all deaths, including motorcycle/Truck/SUV deaths, which have higher death rates than passenger cars, perhaps 5x-10x higher.

A proper comparison in this case is comparing passenger car death rates.

And then you need to factor in other conditions, such as the fact that weather was clean, and that you should be looking to compare pedestrian/bicyclist deaths, and you see that this incident already throws out wack the death rate for autonomous vehicles.