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I wonder if AP is really 2x safer as Musk claims. Highway driving is already significantly safer per mile than local roads, > The grim statistics provided by t
by unityByFreedom 7y ago
I wonder if AP is really 2x safer as Musk claims. Highway driving is already significantly safer per mile than local roads,
> The grim statistics provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also show that drivers on rural roads die at a rate 2.5 times higher per mile traveled than on urban highways. Urban drivers travel twice as many miles but suffer close to half the fatal accidents. [1]
Could this explain away Musk's AP safety claims, given that it's mostly used on highways?
[1] https://www.npr.org/2009/11/29/120716625/the-deadliest-roads-are-rural https://www.npr.org/2009/11/29/120716625/the-deadliest-roads...
- marmshallow 7y agoI would assume that Musk's claim was comparing manually driven Teslas on the highway with AP Teslas on the highway. But I don't think there's a way to verify.
- mastware 7y agoHe may have been using data from the flawed NHTSA study, https://www.thedrive.com/tech/26455/nhtsas-flawed-autopilot-safety-study-unmasked https://www.thedrive.com/tech/26455/nhtsas-flawed-autopilot-...
- sorokod 7y agoThis x2.5 death rate is highly correlated to the speed the medics can arrive at the scene of the accident.
- unityByFreedom 7y agoThat may be. The point here is AP is mostly used on highways and that we are unable to verify Musk's claims without data from Tesla.