For my use case, the Pixel 10 doesn’t offer enough over the 9a to make the extra cost worth it for me.

They all lobby the regulatory agencies for the same things. Tesla ain’t special there. Every auto manufacturer has formulas that they use to determine how many deaths cost them more than doing nothing does.

I won’t argue with you over that. As an old retired medic, there are a great number of ways to die that are horrifying. And I’ve seen some of them.

And that’s fine that in the EU, Your roads, your choice.

In the western world, deaths from bananas to cyber trucks to rocket ships are tracked. And believe it or not for many of those things there is a threshold of deaths per month or year that is required before any safety concerns are invoked.

They have charts with actual numbers to decide on how many people need to get hurt before a stop sign at a street intersection gets installed. And how many deaths need to occur before those stop signs are upgraded to stop lights.

While I don’t own a cyber truck or anything Tesla and never will. 5 deaths out of however many miles driven by the over 1/2 million cyber trucks that have been sold, is barely statistical noise.

*****Annual deaths from bananas is statistically insignificant. But strangely PubMed did have a German paper about a woman that evidently committed suicide by eating a very large number of bananas. Hyperkalemia is a real thing and there are people at high risk of it. But man, kidney failure is a very painful way to choose to die.