Re:Tesla loses U.S. designation for some advanced safety fea...
by kevinskii on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:01PM
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Yes, and in addition, the comparison should be between similar vehicle body styles and manufacturing years.
Re:Tesla loses U.S. designation for some advanced safety fea...
by ska on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:55PM
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True; a really interesting way to do these comparisons would be by narrow year, vehicle category, and purchaser (e.g. don't conflate fleet sales to private) as it normalizes a bunch of factors all at once. Sample size can be a problem, I expect.
All the self driving companies do this, but it only makes sense to compare # of accidents/mile between like processes. It's an ok proxy for total risk iff accidents were uniformly distributed, but we know that isn't even close to true.
With a system like Teslas', it is preferentially, probably approximately exclusively if normalized by distance, deployed in situations with a lower accident rate - comparing that to total rates is nonsense.
What would be more interesting is Tesla vs. human accident rates on only freeway miles, say, but I haven't seen that anywhere, have you?
Best rough stats I can find is that less than 1/2 of all accidents happen on highways. There are a also a ton of fender-bender, parking lot and/or traffic jam accidents that aren't really applicable either.