This article is missing a comparison to death rates on the average automobile. No basis of comparison. 32 deaths in the US all time with autopilot? Is this more or less than other cars for that many miles?
The US made more sense when I understood that almost everything, with the exception of prescription drugs, is post-market regulated. Meaning you can take your electric self driving car, crypto scam, etc. to market and then have to face the consequences after the fact if it turns out to do harm to consumers. Other places like Europe are more pre-market regulated for things like this. Which leads to much slower adoption of innovative new products, but also less issues like this.