The Tesla Model 3 Survey: In Part III of our survey of 5,000 owners, we take a close look at Autopilot—the good, the bad, the ugly, the life-saving 1/ bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-…
This is the messy middle ground in the transition to self-driving cars. We heard hundreds of stories where Tesla’s Autopilot put people in danger—and where it rescued them from it. More than 90% of owners said Autopilot makes them safer 2/
bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-…
bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-…
Six drivers claimed that Autopilot actually contributed to a collision, while nine people in the Bloomberg survey went so far as to credit the system with saving their lives 3/ bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-…
Here's the core of it: 1,600 accounts of close calls with Tesla’s Autopilot—both good and bad. Reading these is the best way to understand the complicated point we’re at with automated-driving technology 4/ bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-…
Here are some overall ratings for Autopilot. Safety rates highest, followed by opinions of basic Autopilot. Satisfaction begins to dip when we get into the the newer "beta" features 5/ bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-…
And then there’s Smart Summon, Autopilot’s newest feature that enables your car to navigate busy parking lots to come find you—with no driver behind the wheel. We asked people about it in the weeks after it was released. Opinions were divided 6/ bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-…
Smart Summon is the clearest expression yet of Tesla’s approach to autonomy: push out a rough fix to a really hard problem and use customer data to rapidly refine it. To some, it feels reckless—it’s also key to Autopilot development 7/ bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-…
Our survey gathered more than 800 personal accounts of Smart Summon after the initial release. So far it’s the most divisive Tesla feature we’ve asked about 8/ bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-…
Special shoutout to @ryanabest. As a summer intern he developed the visual display for the Autopilot comments—beautiful work. He was snapped up by @fivethirtyeight so follow his work there! & thanks to co-conspirators @dean_halford @cedricsam @YueQiu_cuj bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-…
