But the counter-argument, to allow autopilot to catch on if it is NOT safer today is to cause deaths, even if over the long run (6 months? 6 years? 60 years?) i

But the counter-argument, to allow autopilot to catch on if it is NOT safer today is to cause deaths, even if over the long run (6 months? 6 years? 60 years?) it will be a net positive. The stats need to compare a Tesla not to the "average" car, but the average car in that market segment driven by an owner of that socioeconomic class to tell us much of anything. And then we need to separate out when autopilot is active vs when it's merely functioning in a passive sense. Hell, my VW Golf has forward collision warning with automatic emergency braking. Even Corollas these days have laser cruise.