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Tesla has shipped ~1M cars total, USA registers ~250M new cars every year. Accidents happen around 1 in 50 cars per year in the USA. Most of the human accidents
by jodrellblank 6y ago
Tesla has shipped ~1M cars total, USA registers ~250M new cars every year. Accidents happen around 1 in 50 cars per year in the USA. Most of the human accidents happen while drunk, distracted, speeding, or driving recklessly. Suspiciously the DriverKnowledge source adds these up to 103% of causes.
But we can say that a Tesla autopilot is never drunk, distracted, should never be speeding or driving recklessly. Crashing into an upturned truck, a fire truck, a street sweeper, a parked car, while sober, paying attention, driving carefully and attentively, is worse than human driving.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/502208/tesla-quarterly-vehicle-deliveries/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/502208/tesla-quarterly-v...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/183505/number-of-vehicles-in-the-united-states-since-1990/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/183505/number-of-vehicle...
[3] https://www.driverknowledge.com/car-accident-statistics/ https://www.driverknowledge.com/car-accident-statistics/