Not to be indifferent to Huang’s death, but people die in cars all the time. I’m more interested in whether or not Tesla’s autopilot is better on total deaths per X miles than human drivers.

I guess this is one of those derail the train or kill the man questions, is society willing to kill a man to save thousands of lives in the future?

Of course it’s not quite as clearcut since we’re not certain self driving cars will ever be safer than human drivers (although my intuition is that they will be since they won’t get drunk, fall asleep, or text at the wheel).

And of course comparisons are a bit difficult since humans are of course at level 5 autonomy and statistics are generated from those conditions, and of course Tesla is not and stats won’t be.

Interesting stuff.