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Tesla autopilot has killed a few people and they’re still using it.

• eesmith 8y ago
  In the context of overall mission goals, the mission for the misnamed 'autopilot' of Tesla is to be safer than humans. Moreover, while the car industry certainly produces safer cars than ever before, a huge number of deaths are auto related, so there's already some general acceptance that people will die. I think a better example is Virgin Galactic, where several people have died (one on a flight, three on the ground explosion), while the project mission continues. Then again, VG still isn't flying commercial flights. I don't know how to interpret that in terms of NASA's proposed non-risk-taking.