Focus: Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality
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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.

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.

  • @paintbucketholderEnglish
    18•1 year ago

    Former NHTSA senior safety adviser Missy Cummings, a professor at George Mason University’s College of Engineering and Computing, said the surge in Tesla crashes is troubling.

    “Tesla is having more severe — and fatal — crashes than people in a normal data set,” she said in response to the figures analyzed by The Post.

    This would indicate that FSD is more dangerous than a human driver, would it not?

    • @[email protected]English
      -2•1 year ago

      That still doesn’t tell are those accidents happening more compared to normal cars. If you have good driver assist systems which are able to prevent majority of minor crashes but not the severe ones then the total number of crashes goes down but the kinds that remain are the bad ones.

      • @rambarooEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        They are in accidents at higher rates than the normal data set so that’s exactly what it says.

    • @chakan2English
      -2•1 year ago

      Depends…did you read that study on Twitter or another source?

      • @rambarooEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        It’s from the Washington Post article linked in the parent comment. Come tf on dude. You look like a douche accusing people of using Twitter as a source when the actual source is literally in the same thread.

        • @chakan2English
          0•1 year ago

          It was a joke about Twitter users. Of course FSD is more dangerous than a human. It took all 0f 20 minutes for it to try to run a red on Musk.