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95 Tesla deaths have involved fires or Autopilot. How the EV maker fares in fatalities per million miles. (www.businessinsider.com)
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95 Tesla deaths have involved fires or Autopilot. How the EV maker fares in fatalities per million miles.::Tesla deaths from fires and Autopilot make up 24% of the fatalities in crashes. Learn about the death rates per million miles and vs other cars.

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[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

In the fourth quarter of 2022, Tesla said its cars using Autopilot were involved in one crash per every 4.85 million miles or 0.2 crashes per million miles. That's compared with around 0.7 crashes per million miles for Teslas not using Autopilot

Well if you can believe Tesla's numbers, autopilot is still safer than manual. Though really I think the criteria for safety should be more strict than just being somewhat safer. Other car makers won't take autopilot beyond self-park for good reason. It's not that Tesla's technology is so much better, other makers are just more responsible about liability.

[–] vin@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 years ago

Tesla is using stats to lie. Autopilot can only be used on highways. If you just look at crash rate on highways, it’s very close to autopilot’s rate. And ideally it should be compared to other assistive technologies.

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