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Re:Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent A... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday August 24, 2017 @04:00PM (#15093525)
> Actually the study explicitly doesn't show that

You are correct. We do not have definitive data that the technology is safe. That said, we have preliminary data that hints it's safer and nothing similar to hint it's less safe.

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Re:Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent A... by frgtpsswrdlame on Thursday August 24, 2017 @04:33PM (#15093809)
>That said, we have preliminary data that hints its safer and nothing similar to hint it's less safe.

Safer than? Human driving? No, we don't.

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Re:Tesla’s Push to Build a Self-Driving Car Sparks Dissent A... by tcheard on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:40PM (#15094685)
Safer than level 1 autonomy.

> So what this report is actually showing is that Level 2 enabled car is safer than a Level 1 enabled car.

which seems to disagree with the leading statement of the first comment in this thread:

> The level-2 driving that Tesla is pushing seems like a worst case scenario to me

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