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The rate of mere accidents isn't the metric you're necessarily looking for. What's relevant is the rate of accidents compared to the rate of fatal accidents, fo
by loteck 8y ago
The rate of mere accidents isn't the metric you're necessarily looking for. What's relevant is the rate of accidents compared to the rate of fatal accidents, for manual driving.
And then the same for autopilot.
Tesla's stingy with their mileage data though, so you have to get academic.
Combining our crash data with the MIT numbers, we arrive at the following fatal Tesla accident rates:
- Autopilot: 0.25 per 100 million miles
- Human Pilot: 0.20 per 100 million miles.
(Put another way, one Autopilot fatal crash every 400 million miles, one human pilot crash every 500 million miles.)
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1119936_tesla-fatal-crash-rate-with-autopilot-still-no-better-than-with-human-drivers https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1119936_tesla-fatal-cra...
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- Xylakant 8y agoTo add to that some more differences need to be taken into account: * autopilot is used mostly in favorable road conditions, highways, clear weather, while humans drive in any condition, for example snow or fog * Teslas are on average newer than the average car on the road, increasing the likelihood to survive a crash * Teslas are upper class vehicles, further increasing the likelihood to survive a crash All in all, the cards are stacked in favor of Tesla in a mere (fatal) accident per mile comparison.