You would need more than one rate: - percentage of product owner operators who are killed by the product they own/operate per year - number of other people kill

You would need more than one rate: - percentage of product owner operators who are killed by the product they own/operate per year - number of other people killed by the median product owner per year - inflation adjusted property damage (belonging to other people, or to the public/govt) caused by the median product owner per year Regulating products based on the potential to kill, maim, or injure, is not a terrible idea. It’s why we require more training of people who fly 747, then people who operate cars. But if it was going to work, we’d have to do it without carve outs - if it only applies to some products, then it’s really just politics. If Tesla’s auto pilot is really so safe that it needs little or no regulation, then by definition, regular cars are so dangerous that they should be banned or require much more regulation. But I only ever hear the first half of this argument, which makes me worry this is not really an argument about safety.