And yet there is no evidence of these assertions other than wishful thinking.
There is no evidence that self-driving systems are safer than humans, so there is no reason to treat them as if they are. In fact, compared to other luxury vehicles, Tesla vehicles are involved in more accidents.
The medical world is extremely conservative. The FDA has incredibly high standards to meet, thankfully, and demands ample scientific evidence for the medicines and treatments it approves.
"Move fast and break things" doesn't exist in the medical world, but it does exist outside of it in the form of unregulated supplements and illegal procedures and distribution of medication. People are routinely made into victims of this market just so someone can make a quick buck.
Anyway, move fast and break things is ingrained into the core of the medical profession when there is an unmet medical need.
The FDA for example has: Accelerated Approval, Fast track designation, Breakthrough therapy designation, and Priority Review all designed to speed things up when the benefits are significant.
They don’t apply for new pain medication because the risk vs reward is very different. 2014: https://www.fda.gov/media/94063/download
PS: I think we can agree that in terms of car safety there is clearly a large unmet need. That’s not to say self driving is the solution, just that it’s a serious contender.
If I offer you an untested unreliable cancer cure, on the grounds that moving slowly kills more in the long run, I'm likely to make things worse by putting out a non-cure. We could do some really fucked up human experimentation to save more lives in the long run, but that's not the ethics we've collectively agreed on.
Informed consent is a really big deal, but not a blanket exception for anything. Compensated participation for example is tricky. That’s the kind of issues that make medical ethics a complex subject and there are often difficult choices to be made.
Do you have a source for this claim?
If we are talking an eventual 10% reduction waiting just 1 year costs ~130,000 lives. On the other hand if mistakes slows long term adoption that’s also harmful.
PS: Adoption curves etc are also import, but that’s what I mean by mistakes slowing adoption.