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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/
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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-…
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🎃Part II: Tesla Model 3 Survey Results🎃
Today we published the second installment of our survey of 5,000 Tesla owners: customer service and charging 1/
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First, check out the number of service visits a new owner requires to fix problems that came with their car. Super impressive trend—but this is more about Tesla getting better at making cars, not improving service (see part 1: bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-…) 2/
For service, Tesla still has a lot of work to do. In 2018 it sold more cars than it had in the previous decade combined. The service infrastructure wasn’t ready for it, leading to long service delays and poor communication. It’s still a problem /3
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🚨Bloomberg's Tesla Model 3 Survey results🚨

In May, we started asking Model 3 owners about what it's like to own a Tesla, and they had a *lot* to say. We’ve crunched 500,000 words of feedback into four days of findings. Today is Part 1: Quality 1/ bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-…
First up: Tesla is getting better at making cars. Many early Model 3s were marred by defects, which peaked at 80 issues per 100 cars in Q3 2018. A year later, Q3 defects had dropped by 44%. Here’s a monthly breakdown 2/ bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-…
Most problems were on the exterior. The most common issues, perhaps not surprisingly, were paint defects, panel gaps, and scratches and dents. About 12% of owners reported some kind of paint imperfection 3/ bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-…
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This @exxonmobile chart from 1982 predicted that in 2019 our atmospheric CO2 level would reach about 415 parts per million, raising the global temperature roughly 0.9 degrees C.

Update: The world crossed the 415 ppm threshold this week and broke 0.9 degrees C in 2017 1/
Here’s another from @exxonmobile 1982. It showed how global warming would initially be almost indistinguishable from normal climate fluctuations. But by 2020 there could be no doubt—the old "normal" would be entirely left behind. Welcome to the future 2/ insideclimatenews.org/sites/default/…
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