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This statement is also disengenuous: This is the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles where Autopilot was activated. Among all vehicles in the U
by jackpirate 10y ago
This statement is also disengenuous:
This is the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles where Autopilot was activated. Among all vehicles in the US, there is a fatality every 94 million miles. Worldwide, there is a fatality approximately every 60 million miles.
The wording implies that these numbers are directly comparable, but they are not. I would guess that Autopilot is much more likely to be activated in safe situations. But the other statistics include all situtations.
- BenderV 10y agoYes, and since Tesla explicit ask driver to take over in dangerous situation, the number (fatality/miles) is certainly higher. Still, impressive result by the autopilot. I'm wondering, is there any advanced driving simulation? I'm guessing since they have now lots of data, they could simulate dangerous/extreme situation.
- mozumder 10y agoAlso, the US fatal accident rate is one death per 108 million miles, which includes motorcycles and teens and drunk people. Not only that, you'd expect drivers in the higher-income demographic of US auto customers to have less fatal accidents. The real comparison should between a model S and cars like the Mercedes S-Class, since this is all about car marketing anyways.
- gjem97 10y ago> Not only that, you'd expect drivers in the higher-income demographic of US auto customers to have less fatal accidents. What? Why?
- DanBC 10y agonewer, safer, well-maintained cars.
- mozumder 10y agoBecause they can afford cars with stronger safety features.
- twinkletwinkle 10y agoThey can also afford cars with stronger danger features, like turbochargers. They also might be more sheltered from the consequences of their actions and likely to be reckless while driving. Your assumption may even be correct, but I don't think it's obvious.
- mozumder 10y agoRich people are also older, and older people have low accident rates. In the end, the accident rate comparison to the global population is completely wrong.
- ceejayoz 10y ago> They can also afford cars with stronger danger features, like turbochargers. Which makes it a better comparison to Teslas, really. http://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-model-s-just-got-upgraded-to-ludicrous-speed-1718577723 http://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-model-s-just-got-upgraded-to-l...
- mempko 10y agoLooks like there are some cars with zero recorded deaths. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/01/29/record-9-models-have-zero-highway-deaths-iihs-says.html http://www.cnbc.com/2015/01/29/record-9-models-have-zero-hig... Telsa isn't one of them...
- twinkletwinkle 10y agoWouldn't it be hilarious if they were being really tacit about something like this? In an exceptional scenario, the autopilot disengages and tells the human user to take over. So maybe the autopilot drives into an untenable situation, disengages, the car crashes and kills the "driver", and then the statistics say "Well, Autopilot drove X miles and it was fine. The crash occurred while under human control..." As they say, it's not the fall that kills you. It's the sudden stop at the end.
- chillacy 10y agoA few weeks ago there was a case where a model S crashed because the human driver tapped the brakes, disengaging autopilot, but the driver did not know, and his car hit another car.