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Re:Tesla’s Autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 crash on... by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday September 05, 2019 @03:35AM (#20884624)
I get where you’re coming from, and I agree there the needs of public safety policy and self interest don’t always align.

What I mean to say is, when car considering the safety data of any vehicle, it is insufficient to know that the vehicle performs better than whole-fleet.

It’s also necessary to know whether any particular vehicle outperforms others in its class.

One of those without the other is necessary but not sufficient.

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Re:Tesla’s Autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 crash on... by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 05, 2019 @03:56AM (#20884732)
More data is almost always better, but I disagree on what's sufficient. If a specific use case ranks moderately high vs. the entire US fleet, then that single piece of data is sufficient.

The driver that's above average but could be more above average isn't where we need to be fixing things. Not when there are millions of drivers that are either hyper-aggressive or senile still on the roads.

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Re:Tesla’s Autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 crash on... by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday September 05, 2019 @04:17AM (#20884832)
Okay, yeah, that’s fair enough.
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