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Re:Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fu... by slg on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @03:58PM (#24911156)
>Also, despite having 4 billion miles of sensory data, that hasn't stopped Tesla from being the industry leader in self-driving fatalities. The rest of the industry combined has only a single fatality.

You are missing the point. Tesla is the industry leader in fatalities primarily because they have such a huge lead in the number of miles. Miles are not directly comparable to each other because each company has a different approach, but Tesla's fatality rate is 1 every 800 million miles. Waymo appears to be the leader among the rest of the industry with 20 million miles. How can you predict Waymo is safer than Tesla at this point? They may end up being safer, but it is way too early to say that right now.

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Re:Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fu... by gamblor956 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @04:08PM (#24911259)
No, the point is that Tesla isn't learning from the data it collects. It keeps having the same problems over and over again.

And that problem gets worse with increasing data, not better, because the useless data will drown out the important data.

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Re:Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fu... by slg on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @04:25PM (#24911441)
I don't know how you are drawing that conclusion and it is irrelevant to the original discussion about having a track record of safety. Neither company has proven their system is as safe or safer than humans. Tesla at least has a much longer track record of their system not being substantially more dangerous than humans. Waymo doesn't have enough data to say even that.
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Re:Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fu... by xedeon on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @10:41PM (#24914465)
You're correct: https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
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Re:Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fu... by gamblor956 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:52PM (#24935684)
No, you're both incorrect.

Tesla's own legal filings shows that Autopilot is 2-3x more likely to get into accidents that Teslas without Autopilot engaged. (The 2x for Autopilot disabled but other advanced driving features engaged; 3x for all advanced driving functions disabled.) https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2020/10/28/new-te...

Their marketing claims are just that: marketing.

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Re:Waymo and Daimler Trucks partner on the development of fu... by xedeon on Saturday October 31, 2020 @02:09AM (#24949478)
> Tesla's own legal filings

Where is the source for this? It wasn't anywhere on the article that you linked.

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