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Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality (www.reuters.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality::Tesla Inc is set to defend itself for the first time at trial against allegations that failure of its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to death, in what will likely be a major test of Chief Executive Elon Musk's assertions about the technology.

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[–] rambaroo 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Humans have a lower accident rate than Tesla's autopilot, it says so in the article itself.

[–] jimbolauski 1 points 1 year ago

I don't see that claim anywhere in the article.

In fact any comparisons I've found show Tesla's autopilot performing better than humans. One crash 4.41 million miles driven on autopilot in a tesla vs one crash for every 1.2 million miles in a tesla without autopilot, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 484,000 miles.

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/12/07/tesla-1-crash-per-4-41-million-miles-traveled-on-autopilot/