Hacked billboards make Teslas see phantom objects causing them to swerve or stop

Re:Hacked billboards make Teslas see phantom objects causing... by Ekaros on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:02AM (#24798306)

Now are those metrics comparable? Are they normalized for conditions and location? That is situations where autopilot disengages and driver does not take action counted in?

Weather, type of road and so on has huge effect on number of accidents. Unless those are taken in consideration it's only lies...

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Re:Hacked billboards make Teslas see phantom objects causing... by falcolas on Friday October 16, 2020 @11:25AM (#24801728)

I'm going to say that these are not normalized. It's fairly well known (and NHTSA data backs it up) that the accident rate for the types of vehicle Tesla builds (luxury 4/5 door sedans) accounts for a fraction of total vehicle accidents.

A portion of this is a result of the ability for young adults to purchases $30-40,000 cars: 16-19 yo drivers make up around 2/5 of the total accidents in the US.

https://aaafoundation.org/rates-motor-vehicle-crashes-injuri...

Additionally, 4 door sedans in general (which describes most Tesla models) are only involved in approximately 27% of all accidents. The Model X, a compact SUV, only accounts for about 13% of all accidents.

https://cdan.nhtsa.gov/tsftables/tsfar.htm# (look at table 37)

But it doesn't make for nearly as good of a press release.

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