You allow testing in public because currently there are tens of thousands of people dying every year and reducing the time before everyone has safe self driving

You allow testing in public because currently there are tens of thousands of people dying every year and reducing the time before everyone has safe self driving by even a single year will save ten thousand lives. So unless you think this policy will actually kill many thousands of people or think that banning public testing won't slow down self driving by at least a year then we should allow public testing.