[a_square_peg]

“The horrible truth is that if autonomous driving can save 1+ life, it's better than what we have now”

This is not true at all and we have much higher standards than this. This is like saying if a vaccine cures Covid but manages to kill people at a rate slightly less than Covid, we should embrace it.

[schmidp]

Isn’t that exactly what we are doing? (-slightly, as we would need to define the threshold)