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bsilly
@bsilly3
Seek opinions other than your own. The truth always comes out in the end.
Aug 7, 2019 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
Elon Musk wants us to believe that autopilot improves safety. I will show why the opposite is true.

To support its safety claim, Tesla reports accident rates comparing all miles driven on autopilot to all miles driven without autopilot. Here is the data for Q2 2019:

1/n 1 accident for every 3.27 million miles on autopilot, versus 2.19 for regular driving, suggesting that autopilot is 1.5x safer.

But is autopilot the only factor here?

Something twigged in my memory banks from a former life as a transportation engineer.

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