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17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot
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I dislike elon, and I'm never buying a Tesla (I own a different EV already). However, until someone shows me the equivalent human caused rates (for the same type of roads and distance) these numbers just simply don't look out of line with what I would expect for any car.
IMO Self driving doesn't need to be perfectly safe, it just needs to be equivalent or safer than the average human driver.
I agree with you that we need more data. Right now the USA average car death's are 1.37 per 100 million miles driven.
From what little Tesla has talked about the autopilot is below that average. BUT the raw data hasn't been released. We don't know how many miles have been driven on autopilot, we don't know the road conditions it was used in (assumingely autopilot would be used more often on freeways), and we don't know how the safety rating of the Tesla vehicle compares to others on the road (its possible Teslas are getting in more accidents but the car is keeping them safe, or vice versa).
Too many unknowns. So while I dislike this article because it mostly comes off as hollow in my eyes, I do think that Tesla needs to make more of it's data public so users can make an informed choice.