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I think only one death so far in a fully autonomous vehicle...the same as heart surgery robots. It was an Uber vehicle, not a Waymo vehicle (if that is any consolation).

Self-driving Uber kills Arizona woman in first fatal crash involving pedestrian, March 19, 2018.

There have been two Tesla crashes that killed drivers with the car in "autopilot" mode. This is not a full self-driving mode - it just keeps your car in the lane and automatically brakes.

Tesla's Autopilot was Involved in Another Deadly Car Crash (California), March 30, 2018. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that four seconds before the 23 March crash on a highway in Silicon Valley, which killed Walter Huang, 38, the car stopped following the path of a vehicle in front of it. Three seconds before the impact, it sped up from 62mph to 70.8mph, and the car did not brake or steer away, the NTSB said....the Tesla battery was breached, causing the car to be engulfed in flames.

NTSB says driver in fatal Tesla crash was overreliant on the car’s ‘Autopilot’ system (Florida)

The first reported death in a Tesla Model S crash while the Autopilot was activated has been shaking the Tesla and self-driving car community since yesterday. The tragic accident happened May 7th in Florida, but we only learned about it yesterday when Tesla revealed that the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) launched preliminary evaluation in Tesla’s Autopilot system.

There are other non-fatal Tesla crashes...

Tesla was in Autopilot mode before Utah crash, driver tells police (Utah), May 14, 2018

A woman whose semi-autonomous Tesla rammed into a fire department truck in Utah last week told police her car was in Autopilot mode at the time of the crash, authorities said Monday.

The unidentified 28-year-old driver was looking at her phone when her Model S — which was traveling at 60 mph — careened through a red light and crashed into the truck, Sgt. Samuel Winkler of the South Jordan Police Department said in a statement. The woman broke her right foot, Winkler said, while the truck driver was checked for whiplash but not hospitalized.