I think that's a bad idea, both legally and ethically. Vehicles cause tens of thousands of deaths - not to mention injuries - per year in North America. You're proposing that a company who can meet that standard is absolved of liability? Meet, not improve.

In that case, you've given these companies license to literally make money off of removing responsibility for those deaths. The driver's not responsible, and neither is the company. That seems pretty terrible to me, and I'm sure to the loved ones of anyone who has been killed in a vehicle collision.

And that is the point, Tesla's "AI" performs nowhere near human levels. Actual full self driving levels is on 5 scales where Tesla's are around level 2 out of those 5.

Tesla claimed they have full self driving for since about a decade or so, and it has been and continues to be a complwte lie. Musk claimed since long ago that he can drive a Tesla autonomously from LA to NY while in reality it has trouble leaving the first parking lot.

I'm unsure of and how much has changed there but since Elmo Musk spends more time lying about everything than actually improving his products, I would not hold my breath.

I think the problem is that for a long time Tesla, and specifically Elon, went around telling everyone how great their autopilot was. Turns out that was all exaggeration and sometimes flat out lying.

They showed videos of the car driving on its own. Later, we found out it was actually being controlled remotely.

Yeah, the driver wasn’t operating the vehicle safely but, Tesla told him that he didn’t have to.