How do you expect the humanity to create a self-driving car then? Somehow magically create it from 0% to 100% in a lab, and then let out on the street? This is never going to work, it needs testing on public roads. What is your plan then? How do you propose FSD cars should be developed?

For starters, Uber could have just not disabled the existing failsafe mechanisms that the car had.

Then, if we start with the expectation that a human in the loop is necessary for live testing, we could have two. It reduces the impact of independent failures. It also adds some social pressure to avoid negligence. It also provides overlapping coverage, as a lifeguard in this thread has pointed out.

Humans are fallible. Accept that, and design systems to be safe despite individual errors.

Driving a car is not the same aa monitoring a self driving car. There will be differences in attentiveness. Stop equating them.

Lets not act like it's a self-fulfilling prophecy that FSD cars on existing public roads will exist.

In my opinion, safe FSD cars are not possible with current technology on existing public roads - so either the technology has to improve by orders of magnitude, or the roads need to be modified significantly.

The gung-ho experimentation that is going on in public is in my opinion very dangerous and should be stopped, and this case is a perfect example of why.

Both the road infrastructure and other drivers are too crappy and unpredictable for FSD cars to be viable and safe.

Also this business of holding someone who is not actually controlling the vehicle accountable is ridiculous, and is surely something which will be proven in court eventually.