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> only about 60% of the school kids [...] The rest it would kill. [...] would probably kill about 10-20 kids per week.

I'm no Tesla fan - but it would be real-world obvious if even 0.1% of Teslas actually were that "eager" to kill children. In most western countries, covering up child-killing accidents scales very poorly.

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Well, we don't have FSD in Europe, and in US, I guess the children don't walk to school.

US kids walk to school far less than in the Good Old Days...but there's still a fair amount of walking. And on low-traffic residential streets, there can be quite a bit of de facto playing in the street. So it's still a "passably" target-rich environment for killer robocars.

In the US, letting your children walk to school is taking a non-negligible risk that you'll be charged with a crime or have your children taken away. Their deaths from a motor vehicle are assumed by all to be a certain eventuality, and parents are more likely to be blamed for it than drivers.

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