Generally this is true, but in the safety critical domain you don't gamble. You do your homework and make sure you aren't exposing your users to unnecessary levels of risk.
If Tesla was developing their system with trained safety drivers or on closed courses, I think they would have higher moral ground to gamble here. But placing the untrained public behind the wheel of alpha quality software is unethical IMHO. There ways to develop autonomous software that are significantly less risky, and the only reason Tesla is doing it this way is for marketing/PR purposes as far as I can tell.
If Tesla was developing their system with trained safety drivers or on closed courses, I think they would have higher moral ground to gamble here. But placing the untrained public behind the wheel of alpha quality software is unethical IMHO. There ways to develop autonomous software that are significantly less risky, and the only reason Tesla is doing it this way is for marketing/PR purposes as far as I can tell.