> If you accidentally kill someone with your car, do you think you should have to pay $243m?
If you have billions of dollars, and somehow can't go to prison, yes you should. If not in compensation to the victim, then in some kind of fine scaled to wealth. The amount paid needs to be high enough to be a deterrent to the individual who did wrong.
If this extreme judgement causes Tesla to abandon autodrive, there will be more deaths on the road. It just isn't rational.
Besides, nobody makes you turn on the autodrive.