Point taken: the safety of such systems should be compared to how people actually drive, not as if everyone was driving with all due attention. The most import

Point taken: the safety of such systems should be compared to how people actually drive, not as if everyone was driving with all due attention. The most important concern is whether other people are safer when you are using autopilot than when you are not. Part of that calculation is how bad the accidents are when they happen. There is also the question of whether safety overall would be better with a combination of lesser technologies, such as lane departure warning and automated emergency braking, than either full autopilot or unassisted manual driving. Every manufacturer should be evaluated in the same way, and if Tesla is currently the best, then congratulations to them, but that does not mean autopilot is good enough yet, and what we need right now is more data objectively evaluated, not Musk's tendentious claims.