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This is confusing: Tesla publishes that Tesla's vehicles, both with and without autopilot, are the subject of substantially fewer accidents per million miles dr
by 015a 3y ago
This is confusing: Tesla publishes that Tesla's vehicles, both with and without autopilot, are the subject of substantially fewer accidents per million miles driven than the US average; last quarter, somewhere ~4.8M miles/accident on autopilot, ~1.5M miles/accident Tesla w/o autopilot, and ~0.5M miles/accident US average.
Given I'd like to assume the best and conclude no one is lying here; obviously what they're measuring is slightly different, but it feels like they're similar enough that we shouldn't be getting entirely opposite outcomes. Do Tesla drivers drive substantially more? Are Tesla drivers just more likely to report crashes to their insurance/police (versus, Tesla's data is probably from automated internal observability)? If Tesla's data is based on internal observability, is that observability underreporting incidents to the mothership?
[1] https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
- _ea1k 3y agoThis is specifically among people who are shopping for insurance. There will naturally be biases in the data.
- clouddrover 3y ago> Given I'd like to assume the best and conclude no one is lying here That's a bad assumption. Tesla routinely lies about everything from full self-driving to price to quarter mile times. It's built into the company's DNA.