content: Though the media twisted it, his statement was simply using the current data available. The average fatality rate for humans is 1 per 60 million miles driven. Teslas have now driven 130 million miles on auto-pilot with one fatality. There's some potential biases there but it's going to give you a pretty good ballpark at least. In any case what he's said is certainly justified based on the information we have to date. Freaking out over one death on the other hand, was not - macabre as that statement may be!