> The odd thing is that even a randomly stupid AI for self driving is statistically safer than most drivers. A strong claim, lacking actual evidence for it.

> The odd thing is that even a randomly stupid AI for self driving is statistically safer than most drivers. A strong claim, lacking actual evidence for it. All we have to go on are some Elon tweets (rather the definition of a biased source) and the actual crash rate. Without a lot more data (which Tesla steadfastly refuses to release) about environments, corrections, etc, it's quite impossible to make that sort of statement with any confidence. The Tesla hardware is a weird combination of capable and insanely dumb, and it's far from obvious which it will be in any given situation until it's gone through it. If an honest statistical analysis of the data indicated that Tesla's automation was better than human drivers (or better than other driver assist systems), I would fully expect them to have released the values. Since they haven't, and only hint at it and make statements that sound statistical but really aren't, I assume they've done the numbers internally and know it's not nearly as good as they like to imply. If I drove in a city like their "self driving" beta was a few months back, I would be hauled from the car on suspicions of driving while hammered.