L4sBot95 Tesla deaths have involved fires or Autopilot. How the EV maker fares in fatalities per million miles.
BurnsIn the fourth quarter of 2022, Tesla said its cars using Autopilot recorded were involved in one crash per every 4.85 million miles — or 0.2 crashes per million miles. That’s compared with around 0.7 crashes per million miles for Teslas not using Autopilot, and a US average of 1.5 crashes per million miles. The company has not released any figures for deaths per million miles, or the total number of miles driven, which would be needed to calculate that figure.
Why do we trust Tesla’s figures? Elon is a pathological liar.
Independently collected evidence that does not rely on Tesla shows that Tesla’s are not safe.
This is FUD. You must pay attention at all times when using Autopilot, the car begs you to do so. Not paying attention is equivalent to setting cruise control in any other vehicle and closing your eyes.
Tesla runs ads saying that their cars drive itself and they don’t need a driver.
Can you provide an example? I genuinely haven’t seen that but I live a relatively advertisement-free lifestyle. As a Tesla owner, I’ve never heard that from anyone in real life either.
#Tesla #selfdriving promo video from 2016 was staged, a senior engineer testified
Ok, counter point is this: electrek.co/…/real-story-behind-tesla-staged-self…
“The engineer added: “The intent of the video was not to accurately portray what was available for customers in 2016. It was to portray what was possible to build into the system.” Elluswamy also confirmed that the Autopilot team put the video together as a “demonstration of the system’s capabilities” at the request of Musk.”
The first seconds of the video literally says “our cars don’t need a driver”.