This is a non sequitur. There's no contradiction between "There will eventually be autonomous programs that are safer than human drivers" and "Tesla's current a

This is a non sequitur. There's no contradiction between "There will eventually be autonomous programs that are safer than human drivers" and "Tesla's current autonomous program is not safer than human drivers". There's no principle requiring Tesla's current program to be good enough, or even that it will ever be good enough– the future might come from someone else.