So much for the laissez-faire attitude to regulating self-driving car technology on public streets. Uber straight up hit and killed a pedestrian who had nothing to do with them and Tesla has now killed a number of people, though at least for them we can mitigate it by saying they willingly enabled it.
Legally Tesla's "autopilot" is considered a new safety feature like air bags were when they are introduced or such and is regulated as such. If they were considered (or advertised as) self driving cars you couldn't use them throughout the US. And honestly Tesla's aren't self-driving cars despite playing them on TV and don't belong in the same category as Uber, which seems to have just gotten a regulatory death sentence on their self-driving car project.
