Yeah, the "no active restraint deployed" thing is horseshit, and Tesla knows it, too. I go to manufacturer training sessions on these systems maybe once a year as a firefighter-paramedic, and there are multiple criteria for deployments these days - you can have a significant collision and if the system determines its better for the occupants not to deploy, then it doesn't.

According to Tesla, that's not an accident.

For FSD evaluation purposes? It sure as hell is.

But it's no longer counted.

That's what I get for not reading the source material! Thanks for correcting me.

That wasn't the first time they'd done that, either. Prior to that, another fatal collision, released a statement, "The vehicle had warned driver prior to collision to pay attention to driving".

They, strangely, didn't mention that this warning was issued for a single steering wheel inactivity failure, and that that happened _eighteen_ _minutes_ prior to the collision.