Why is Tesla able to avoid an existential crisis after FSD related deaths while other self-driving car companies weren't?
Recently saw the news about a person being killed by a Tesla while in autopilot, and reminds me of similar news in the past, especially a gruesome one in 2018. According to https://www.tesladeaths.com/, Tesla FSD could have been involved in as many as 65 deaths, and yet, people seems to forget about them as quickly as come.
On the other hand, a single FSD incident has been the downfall of at least a couple FSD start ups, including Uber ATG (part of the rideshare company) and Cruise (bought by GM). Both of them were valued at billions at one point and were both considered top contenders in the self-driving car space. For Uber, in 2018, it struck a person on a bike and gained huge publicity and pretty much brought the group to a standstill. Shortly after in 2020, it's pretty much dissolved when Uber sold the group to Aurora, a much smaller competitor at the time. For Cruise, it actually beat Waymo in offering public self-driving services in San Francisco. However, it struck and dragged a person that was thrown in its path after being struck by another car in 2023. Pretty much shortly after in 2024, GM shut it all down.
Curious on the business case studies of Tesla's strategy and how it persevered through way more incidents while other major players were brought down by a single one.