Fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot

Re:Fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Aut... by shortcake27 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @03:43PM (#36274287)

I don’t understand why this has been downvoted. The article is clickbait fear-mongering. It claims 17 deaths in 3 years is a “shocking” toll yet and focuses on a couple of nasty accidents, yet has no opinion, comment, or issue with the 40,000 people that die _each year_ due to human error (a figure quoted nonchalantly in the article).

Articles like this prove how irrational humans are. Wanting to ban a system of driving that is quite literally orders of magnitude safer than a human driver, because very occasionally it makes a mistake a human wouldn’t make.

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Re:Fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Aut... by rcxdude on Saturday June 10, 2023 @03:58PM (#36274450)

It isn't actually safer, though. That's a pretty key point. Tesla has used misleading statistics in the past to claim that its driver assist (misleadingly labelled "full self driving") is safer than humans, but this is false. In the situations where Tesla's driver assist can be used, human drivers are much safer than they are on average, so comparing the accident rate directly does not tell you which is safer.

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Re:Fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Aut... by fzeroracer on Sunday June 11, 2023 @01:29AM (#36278432)

Order of magnitudes safer according to whomst, exactly? Whomst is supplying that data? And what exactly is their vested interest in claiming that it's safer?

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