Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopilot caused crash

Re:Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopil... by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday May 02, 2019 @08:50AM (#19807277)

Genuine question.

Did you mean to ignore the fact that Tesla knows the score?

Tesla knows all of those statistics about its drivers, and knows how those numbers compare to other published data.

And they chose to write up the data in the manner they did.

In which configuration of all possible worlds is this ok?

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Re:Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopil... by lordnacho on Thursday May 02, 2019 @09:57AM (#19807938)

Funnily enough I hadn't actually considered it. I guess because I was considering it from the outside.

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Re:Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopil... by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday May 02, 2019 @09:25PM (#19814659)

Thank you for admitting that.

In light of this new context, has your thinking around this subject changed?

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Re:Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopil... by lordnacho on Saturday May 04, 2019 @04:47AM (#19825267)

Well at the time I wasn't really making any moral judgements, just thinking of it as a statistical problem.

Of course Tesla and any other firm that releases stats to prove a point need to do so honestly. And they would have made the exact same considerations that I listed. So yeah, they should have released more representative stats.

I'm sure the PR people don't know anything about stats though, plus they would want to pick whatever they think makes the company look good.

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