How many of those 15 deaths are in a car that costs as much as a Tesla, and therefore can be expected to have the same safety features? How many are in 25 year old cars? If you claim that driving a Tesla on autopilot on a freeway is safer than a 30 year old $2000 clunker, I won’t challenge that. If you say it’s safer than a $50,000 Audi that’s highly debatable.

Not only that, but how many times would autopilot have caused a fatal accident if the human driver hadn’t intervened? Tons of YouTube examples would suggest quite a few.