Tesla Was Kicked Off Fatal Crash Probe by NTSB

Re:Tesla Was Kicked Off Fatal Crash Probe by NTSB by mcguire on Thursday April 12, 2018 @12:58PM (#16822798)

"The agency found that Teslas without Autosteer crashed an average of 1.3 times per million miles driven, compared with 0.8 per million miles for vehicles equipped with Autosteer. That shows that just having Autosteer available on a car — not necessarily enabled at the time of crash — reduced crash rates by about 40 percent. That’s a truly staggering improvement."

That's (a) comparing Teslas to Teslas, not to all vehicles, and (b) not necessarily comparing safety, but crash rates.

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Re:Tesla Was Kicked Off Fatal Crash Probe by NTSB by rohit2412 on Thursday April 12, 2018 @01:08PM (#16822904)

The report conflated Autosteer and AEB, plus AEB was rolled out at the same time, so you can't compare.

however, if you want to compare AutoSteer vs no Autosteer, you need to compare Teslas to teslas, and compare crash rates not fatalities.

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