Can you compare the number of hours driven with the autopilot and compare it to the statistics of human drivers, and determine which was safer?
This was a fatal crash, but faulty airbags caused the death of 10 people.
What selfdriving cars needs, rather than more time to bake, is a PR or lobby group, that can help spin (put in perspective) these types of events.
Autopilot requires manual consent from the user to even enable it and has so many overrides for the user that I feel like you're really stretching it by calling it a "fatal flaw". All it would have taken to prevent this accident was the person driving to hit the brakes in time. Even if they were just using cruise control in their vehicle, they would have died. This was completely about inattention and irresponsibility on the part of the driver. I can't see how anyone is making the leap to this being a "fatal flaw" in the system.