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Originally Posted by fourWheelDrift
To represent this as a self driving or autonomous car fatality is totally inaccurate. According to news reports the car had a beta version of software designed to work in a motorway type environment to allow the car to adjust it's speed and change lanes, this is a much more limited amount of "autonomy" than a self driving car has. The software in question was a beta test version and only used by those who opted to do so and was supposed to be supervised by the driver with his hands on the wheel and his eyes on the road at all times.
Of course sooner or later there will be a fatality involving a self driving car, that is not really the issue, the question is whether they turn out to be safer than the human driven variety, at the current state of the art maybe maybe not but in time they certainly will be.
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To add to this, it has been said that the amount of miles covered by Teslas self-driving system is over double what humans cover between accidents.