I think it's like saying "I don't like surgery, because mistakes during surgeries cause preventable deaths"

It’s not a monetised feature, though.

Driving a car is indeed a monetized feature of cars.

He's saying even if a self driving car is more dangerous than a human, a human driven car is still dangerous and we all accept that. So its not about whether the deaths were preventable. We accept human driven cars therefore we accept preventable death.

We're now forced to consider the fact that this is an argument about the fuzzy math of risk vs reward as we have crossed the threshold of preventable deaths long ago.

What is the point of this comment ? Humans doing anything cause preventable deaths.

That has nothing to do with whether or not a new, potentially life threatening technology should be on the market.

I guess OP means preventable by others who are knowledgeable of the preventability?