so 37,461 deaths out of 263 million cars is better than 1 death out of a couple hundred?! Self-driving ares are thousands of times more dangerous.
As I said in another reply, the proper measurement for comparison would be at fault accidents per miles driven.
But even that wouldn’t matter if the pedestrian is at fault. The article did say the pedestrian crossed the street outside of a crosswalk.
When the government investigated the Tesla accident a year and a half ago they found that the autopilot equipped cars had a 40% lower accident rate than Tesla cars without it.