After this incident and Tesla's response to it, I hope Tesla is sued and or fined into bankruptcy. Tesla is normalizing releasing not fully tested software to do safety-critical things, and literally killing people as a result. A message needs to be sent that this is unacceptable. In addition, their first response is a PR driven response that sought to blame to driver, and violated NTSB procedures. Safety is probably the most important thing to get right with these types of software and Tesla is nonchalantly sacrificing safety for marketing.
Yeah, I can accept that some startups live by "move fast and break things", after all, if I think that their approach is dangerous for me I can choose to not be involved, I can't say the same about being run over by a car that has shitty hardware/software.
Autopilot software that are not safer than human pilots shouldn't be allowed to be sold to the general public until they fix their stuff. And even if they are safer most of the time, we are at least used to how human drivers react, most of them don't accelerate just before a crash.
Whether regulation is insufficient or excessive should be determined on a case-by-case basis. Anybody making blanket statements about all regulation as a whole is an ideologue who probably should not be taken seriously.
