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Originally Posted by soundman98
no, the argument is moreso that the majority of drivers are that stupid.
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I think you're using the phrase 'majority of drivers' quite liberally. Most drivers aren't stupid. Accidents in general are very rare--especially serious ones. I work in the ER of the trauma center for the city, so I would know. While some of the crashes could be the direct fault of Autopilot (it veers abruptly--unlikely), the vast majority are most likely due to driver negligence, which has nothing to do with Autopilot. It isn't the case that they believed the car was fully autonomous. These same drivers may have crashed while texting on their phone or doing something else negligent. Autopilot just becomes an escape goat to blame someone else and to collect a settlement.
If the following statistics are true then Teslas and/or Telsa drivers are safer vehicles/drivers than average. A person is 4x more likely to get into a crash in a normal vehicle than a person in a Tesla without Autopilot, and a person is 7x more likely to get into a crash in a normal vehicle than a person in a Tesla with Autopilot engaged:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-...ot-safer-human
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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s most recent data, there’s an auto crash every 436,000 miles driven in the United States.
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In the fourth quarter of 2018, Tesla reported one accident for every 2.91 million miles driven with Autopilot engaged. The first Tesla safety report of 2019 shows that rate increasing slightly, to one accident every 2.87 million miles.
However, both of those figures are better than the statistics for Teslas without Autopilot engaged: one accident for every 1.76 million miles driven in Q4 2018 and one every 1.58 million miles driven in Q1 2019.
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