Tesla has killed by far the most people. They misrepresented their system to users and investors and almost entirely skipped testing to make consumers the testers, so they could try to catch up despite being almost a decade behind.
Our economy is built on a regulatory framework that protects consumers from companies that cut corners.
I've heard people say that Tesla is in the right because in the long term the tech will save more lives.
That's nonsense. If Tesla didn't cut corners, Waymo would get there just as fast as Tesla will cutting corners.
Take that up with Tesla. Tesla actively redacts their crash information and chooses to not publish even the most basic of data such as distance or crash counts, only unsubstantiated, unaudited conclusions. It is not the duty of the public to grant the benefit of the doubt to a deadly, incomplete product. It is the duty of the manufacturer to provide robust data and analysis corroborated by unbiased third parties positively establishing a sufficient degree of safety.
Tesla killed people, it is up to them to demonstrate the rate is sufficiently low to be considered safe. However, if Tesla chooses, as they do, to not produce robust evidence of its death rate that competent third parties are allowed to audit, then it should be presumed to be unsafe. Anything less does not meet even the basic standards expected of safety-critical product development.
Our economy is built on a regulatory framework that protects consumers from companies that cut corners.
I've heard people say that Tesla is in the right because in the long term the tech will save more lives.
That's nonsense. If Tesla didn't cut corners, Waymo would get there just as fast as Tesla will cutting corners.