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Re:Mercedes to accept legal responsibility for a vehicle whe... by enragedcacti on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @01:55PM (#30769264)
That article is pretty old. More recent analysis is much more specific as to how the data is flawed, see tweet and associated paper:

https://twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1488673180403191808

The primary issue is that the data doesn't adjust for road classification in any way. Highway driving, where autopilot is used, has considerably fewer crashes per mile than city driving. Tesla compared Autopilot's rates against all driving rather than just highway driving which would be the relevant metric.

That adjustment alone almost completely eliminates any safety advantage of Autopilot before you get into any of the other adjustments like age.

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Re:Mercedes to accept legal responsibility for a vehicle whe... by onethought on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @04:16PM (#30770943)
So being safer on highways should be completely disregarded? Okay so this Mercedes news should also be completely disregarded
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Re:Mercedes to accept legal responsibility for a vehicle whe... by ahahahahah on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @04:37PM (#30771185)
Tesla's data doesn't even show that they are safer on highways, I don't think you understand the original criticism.

It's like this:

Tesla: Look how great we are, our apple is redder than their orange.

Critic: It doesn't make sense to compare the colors of those things in that way. Here's why ...

You: So being a redder apple should now be disregarded?

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Re:Mercedes to accept legal responsibility for a vehicle whe... by onethought on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @02:01AM (#30775461)
Tesla’s data shows autopilot is safer (crashes less) than not on autopilot. The only question mark I’ve seen in this discussion is on NHTSAs data regarding Tesla.

Could you explain the flaw in Tesla data? How is crashes/mile not a good proxy for safety?

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