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and tesla's on autopilot are ~9x safer than human drivers (humans get into a car crash every 500,000 miles, teslas on autopilot every 4,500,500 miles) source https://cleantechnica.com/2020/08/01/tesla-autopilot-acciden...

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Tesla compares themselves against all vehicles on the street, including motorcycles, and on all kinds of road where Autopilot would not even work. It's incredibly misleading and pure marketing.

Isn't the goal rite now to have fsd work on any road that's in the tesla gps system (probably based off of whatever google maps gets its info from?)

why wouldn't they compare themselves against all vehicles on the street? they contribute to the miles driven by people statistic

are you against implementing autopilot/fsd/driver assist?

I think it's great, removing the need for people to have to react to split second events when a computer can make a much quicker and calculated decision

Other manufacturers have been integrating collision avoidance and breaking assistants for years, even before Autopilot has been a thing. Tesla is not special.

but they're the first to have autopilot at what it is now. I drive one, it's freaking amazing and does a way better job at driving than a person ever could

woah, downvotes for providing statistics ...

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