Almost 43,000 people died in car-related deaths in the US in 2021 (and millions more worldwide). I hope we can stop focusing on the small number of deaths from this one car company that has self-driving features.
No consumer can purchase any vehicle that is capable of "self-driving" or "driving itself" today.
Tesla's vehicles are not capable of self-driving and, at all times, the human driver is driving the vehicle as both Autopilot and FSD Beta are partial automated driving systems that require a human driver fallback at all times.
The attentiveness required of the human driver with a partial automated driving system is equivalent (on a systems-level) to if the vehicle was not equipped with any automated driving system at all.
Same with fires. It seemed like every tesla fire was reported by the news for a while, meanwhile conventional vehicles are at least 5x more likely to start on fire.
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Almost 43,000 people died in car-related deaths in the US in 2021 (and millions more worldwide). I hope we can stop focusing on the small number of deaths from this one car company that has self-driving features.
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_bites_dog
No consumer can purchase any vehicle that is capable of "self-driving" or "driving itself" today.
Tesla's vehicles are not capable of self-driving and, at all times, the human driver is driving the vehicle as both Autopilot and FSD Beta are partial automated driving systems that require a human driver fallback at all times.
The attentiveness required of the human driver with a partial automated driving system is equivalent (on a systems-level) to if the vehicle was not equipped with any automated driving system at all.
Same with fires. It seemed like every tesla fire was reported by the news for a while, meanwhile conventional vehicles are at least 5x more likely to start on fire.