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Re:IIHS: Model S has higher collision claim frequencies than... by epai on Monday April 02, 2018 @12:48AM (#16732418)
From the article: “Our data shows that Tesla owners have driven this same stretch of highway with Autopilot engaged roughly 85,000 times since Autopilot was first rolled out in 2015 and roughly 20,000 times since just the beginning of the year, and there has never been an accident that we know of. There are over 200 successful Autopilot trips per day on this exact stretch of road.”

It seems like Tesla is trying to explain-away that particular incident as a one-off statistical outlier, and not the fault of the autopilot system. Appealing to statistics like that seems like an attempt to deny responsibility to me.

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Re:IIHS: Model S has higher collision claim frequencies than... by tptacek on Monday April 02, 2018 @12:53AM (#16732428)
That rationalization actually makes it _worse_ for me; it suggests they have no idea why this happened.

But unless the person doing the video faked it, there's no question what happened: the car is driving down I-94 and veers out of its lane towards a concrete median until it's stopped by the operator.

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