When you're providing safety critical equipment, records transparency and testing are critical expectations. In this case, human accidents are incredibly rare.

When you're providing safety critical equipment, records transparency and testing are critical expectations. In this case, human accidents are incredibly rare. You need on the order of millions of miles to verify that a particular system is statistically safer under similar conditions. A safety conscious company would have done the testing to be sure of this prior public release to non-experts (i.e. licensed drivers making test rides like every other SDC employs). Tesla recording only 12.2 miles means they either haven't done the requisite testing to be sure non-experts are safe, or are failing to report the results of that testing to the government. Either one should be an immense red flag, regardless of what agreements they've gotten beta testers to sign.