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Re:As of April 7, 2020, CA DMV has issued two Driverless Veh... by joshuamorton on Monday April 13, 2020 @01:52PM (#22858130)
> And what's wrong with lowering fatality rate whatever your competitors are doing?

It's not actually clear that Tesla lowers the fatality rate. Tesla's driver assist features only work on highways, and highway miles are some of the safest. But the data you get compares assisted teslas on highways to average drivers on all roads. And it's not clear that Tesla is categorically better than competitor's driver assist technology (https://qz.com/1414132/teslas-first-accident-report-claims-i...).

So nothing you've claimed is strongly supported by evidence, and given that these are safety claims that you're parroting from tesla, I'm going to reiterate: Tesla's claims of improved safety and marketing are dangerous since they aren't true.

> It's weird that I have to point out second time I _didn't say they have autonomy_.

Right, but Tesla does, they call their driver assist "Autopilot".

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Re:As of April 7, 2020, CA DMV has issued two Driverless Veh... by zlsa on Monday April 13, 2020 @02:46PM (#22858686)
Autopilot != autonomy in cars or in planes.
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Re:As of April 7, 2020, CA DMV has issued two Driverless Veh... by joshuamorton on Monday April 13, 2020 @02:55PM (#22858793)
I'm not sure what you're getting at. In planes (and especially in planes in pop culture), autopilot does allow flight without keeping your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road, so to speak.
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