Mastodawn

E.W. Niedermeyer Mar 2, 2023

For years, Tesla and its supporters have waved away detailed investigations tying Autopilot's design to multiple deaths, claiming that the safety benefits outweighed them.

Now, finally, we have published academic work proving that Autopilot has no safety benefits, when you adjust the numbers for road type and driver age. In fact crashes appear to be 11% higher with Autopilot!

Huge thanks to Noah Goodall of the Virginia Transportation Research Council for this work!

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19439962.2023.2178566?journalCode=utss20

Normalizing crash risk of partially automated vehicles under sparse data

The safety of increasingly automated vehicles is of great concern to regulators, yet crash rates are generally reported by manufacturers using proprietary metrics with limited source data. Without ...

Taylor & Francis

E.W. Niedermeyer Feb 25, 2023

Just Hood Meadows Thursday parking lot things

E.W. Niedermeyer Feb 25, 2023

I have two words for you, Portland: SNOW TIRES

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E.W. Niedermeyer Feb 23, 2023

I would make fun of all the usual Portland Snow Day flailing out on the roads, but I am also an idiot and left my poor old sports car out in the deluge. I only wish these poorly-lit smartphone pics could show how sick it looks with the neighbor's snow-laden bamboo draped across it.