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Do we know if there were any near misses? That's how I evaluate my own driving, I think of things much less severe than collisions as incidents.
by maxerickson 6y ago
Do we know if there were any near misses?
That's how I evaluate my own driving, I think of things much less severe than collisions as incidents.
- ajross 6y agoDoes e.g. the NTSB track "near misses" for human drivers? That would no doubt be great data to have, but it's impractical to collect for all known technologies, even ones widely regarded as having acceptable safety. Thankfully in this case cars actually crash a lot, so we have good proxy data anyway. And... again, Tesla seems to be doing pretty well. People are desperate for bad news about autopilot, to the extent that we all blew up a story about (what turns out to have been) a routine human driver crash in Texas two weeks ago based on a quote from one fire marshall. But the reality is that the system appears to be doing pretty well.
- maxerickson 6y agoMy point is that "The car wasn't used properly, but it did in fact drive itself safely." isn't really something we can know. We know it didn't collide with anything.
- ajross 6y agoRight, and my point was that this is a specious distinction. It's not a knowable thing for any vehicle, anywhere. So the lack of data for one particular vehicle says basically nothing of any use. Like it or not, we measure safety in vehicle travel by measuring accidents. Those are objectively identifiable and there are extensive bureaucracies both public and private designed to track them. And quite frankly, Teslas on autopilot look pretty damn good.