Context is probably http://fortune.com/2016/07/06/tesla-autopilot-crash-material-ceo-elon-musk/ http://fortune.com/2016/07/06/tesla-autopilot-crash-material...

Context is probably http://fortune.com/2016/07/06/tesla-autopilot-crash-material-ceo-elon-musk/ http://fortune.com/2016/07/06/tesla-autopilot-crash-material... SEC statements are usually covering a lot of stuff, so I doubt it's very surprising. But I'm still not convinced by their argumentation on the safety of the Autopilot. >That contrasted against worldwide accident data, customers using Autopilot are statistically safer than those not using it at all. I can only cite German data [0], but on the Autobahn there is a death every 90 million miles driven. But that includes drunk drivers, old cards, old drivers etc. Teslas Autopilot being save in over 100 million miles doesn't really sound that much better, especially considering the smaller sample size. And in this case, the death could've probably been avoided by not using autopilot. [0]: https://www.adac.de/_mmm/pdf/statistik_4_5_Unfallgeschehen_Strassenarten_42780.pdf https://www.adac.de/_mmm/pdf/statistik_4_5_Unfallgeschehen_S...