95 Tesla deaths have involved fires or Autopilot. How the EV maker fares in fatalities per million miles.::Tesla deaths from fires and Autopilot make up 24% of the fatalities in crashes. Learn about the death rates per million miles and vs other cars.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Business Insider is notoriously anti-Tesla. The German company who owns BI is a large stakeholder in Porsche’s EV division. And their articles on German luxury vehicles are basically adverts. They literally have articles criticising Tesla for having video games in the car, then have articles talking about how innovative BMW is for putting video games in their cars.

      This article went on for about 20 paragraphs just casting aspersions, and never once compared the numbers to any other manufacturer - making it all meaningless.

  • @[email protected]
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    131 year ago

    In the fourth quarter of 2022, Tesla said its cars using Autopilot were involved in one crash per every 4.85 million miles or 0.2 crashes per million miles. That’s compared with around 0.7 crashes per million miles for Teslas not using Autopilot

    Well if you can believe Tesla’s numbers, autopilot is still safer than manual. Though really I think the criteria for safety should be more strict than just being somewhat safer. Other car makers won’t take autopilot beyond self-park for good reason. It’s not that Tesla’s technology is so much better, other makers are just more responsible about liability.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Tesla is using stats to lie. Autopilot can only be used on highways. If you just look at crash rate on highways, it’s very close to autopilot’s rate. And ideally it should be compared to other assistive technologies.

    • @jocanib
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      21 year ago

      Narrator: you cannot believe Tesla’s numbers.

    • @machinin
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      21 year ago

      Other car makers won’t take autopilot beyond self-park for good reason.

      Mercedes offers level 3, which is fully hands off, and they take full responsibility for accidents that happen while the system is engaged. Ford and GM also have systems that are on par with Tesla and likely have better safety measures.

      It’s not that Tesla’s technology is so much better, other makers are just more responsible about liability.

      Definitely agree with this. Tesla just cuts corners.

  • Kokesh
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    131 year ago

    Much less deaths than without the feature turned on and much much less than other cars.

      • @Pickle_Jr
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        81 year ago

        That site is behind a paywall to me so this might’ve been addressed, but to play devils advocate I’m wondering about the rate of incidents between Tesla and all other manufacturers combined?

        Now it could just be that I’m in the Midwest, where we’re only ahead of the south when it comes to adopting changes, but I practically see no other EVs still other than Teslas. I’m talking 8 Teslas before I see one Chevy Volte or something

      • BombOmOm
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        31 year ago

        Autopilot systems have been involved in far more incidents than driver-assistance systems from all other manufacturers combined

        Do they also get used more often than all other manufacturers combined? What matters here is the rate of accidents, and this statement tells us nothing about the rate of accidents.

    • @ghariksforge
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      81 year ago

      The evidence for this claim is lacking.

  • vacuumpizzas
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    91 year ago

    In 2016, the first known fatality linked to a self-driving car took place when a Tesla Model S failed to stop and crashed into a semitrailer truck.

    Ah, this one is hard to forget. I remember this one vividly because it sparked all sorts of philosophical discussions around the use of self-driving cars. Hypothetical scenarios like “Between a family of 5 with children, should the car choose to kill the driver to save the family” and the different variations of the trolley problem.

    Determining the responsible party was always a puzzle to me. The current state of auto-pilot requires hands-on attention from the driver, so the accountable party is arguably the driver. But with a fully autonomous vehicle, where the steering wheel isn’t installed, is the car manufacturer accountable for deaths and accidents?

    • @machinin
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      51 year ago

      with a fully autonomous vehicle, where the steering wheel isn’t installed, is the car manufacturer accountable for deaths and accidents?

      We already have this. Mercedes offers level 3 capability where they take responsibility for any accidents using the system. We’ll know that Tesla has made real progress when they stop blaming drivers for every single accident that happens.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      But with a fully autonomous vehicle, where the steering wheel isn’t installed, is the car manufacturer accountable for deaths and accidents?

      Yes

      • vacuumpizzas
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        11 year ago

        A contrived metaphor: if an unleashed dog bites a person, is the dog owner no longer responsible for the incident?

        You could say that it’s up to the car owner to install a steering wheel, like how a dog owner should use a leash. But this would be a gap between when the person receives the car and when they could install the steering wheel (assuming the wheel installation can be performed).

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    In the fourth quarter of 2022, Tesla said its cars using Autopilot recorded were involved in one crash per every 4.85 million miles — or 0.2 crashes per million miles. That’s compared with around 0.7 crashes per million miles for Teslas not using Autopilot, and a US average of 1.5 crashes per million miles. The company has not released any figures for deaths per million miles, or the total number of miles driven, which would be needed to calculate that figure.

    • @ghariksforge
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      41 year ago

      Why do we trust Tesla’s figures? Elon is a pathological liar.

      Independently collected evidence that does not rely on Tesla shows that Tesla’s are not safe.

      • @bluekieran
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        21 year ago

        He doesn’t need to lie when he can just choose what to release - if they’re not releasing deaths per million miles, it’s because the numbers aren’t as favourable.

      • @weinermeat
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        21 year ago

        This is FUD. You must pay attention at all times when using Autopilot, the car begs you to do so. Not paying attention is equivalent to setting cruise control in any other vehicle and closing your eyes.

        • @ghariksforge
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          41 year ago

          Tesla runs ads saying that their cars drive itself and they don’t need a driver.

        • @[email protected]
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          While it’s always easy to blame irresponsible drivers, when you market your product as “full self driving”, the behavioral consequences of that decision are obvious, and yes, you share in the blame for the carnage you helped create.

          • @weinermeat
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            21 year ago

            Autopilot is not FSD. I agree the advertising of FSD is poor, but the FSD you’re thinking of is in beta, opt-in only, and also tries to force you to pay attention.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    If someone is from the US, please explain it to me: how is this shit still legal there?

    Isn’t there some regulations about what can you put on the roads? Aren’t you responsible to prove that your solution works before you get a green light to put it on the roads? Or was Autopilot ever approved by any regulator?

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      Autopilot is a teslas name for adaptive cruise control, which has been in cars since decades. Assistive technologies don’t need approvals.

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      Honestly I don’t know how Tesla got past USA regulation on its autopilot. In the USA aircraft have to meet FAA safety standards. A new model aircraft has to go through extensive flight testing and receive FAA certification before it can go into production. I’m not sure who governs automotive safety in the USA, but they did something unusual to push through it. Either that or automotive safety regulations in the USA are just not that strict.

      There’s also the fact the batteries they use can spontaneously catch fire (properly known as thermal runaway). I would think that to pose a big safety consideration, but evidently it’s not a problem for US regulations. There is a Li-Ion battery technology much less prone to thermal runaway (LiFePO4) and some cars use it. It’s greatly safer and has about five times greater battery longevity, but it’s also about twenty percent heavier. I think it’s a fair trade-off to avoid a fiery death.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        There’s also the fact the batteries they use can spontaneously catch fire (properly known as thermal runaway).

        Thermal runaway is not spontaneous. It requires sustained heating, which is typically caused by serious damage. So yes, lithium batteries can catch fire after a crash. But do you know what else catches first after a crash - ICE powered cars (at a rate 10x higher than EVs). And ICE cars are FAR more dangerous, because unlike an EV that burns slowly for hours, an exploding gas tank releases its energy in an instant. Ask a firefighter what’s more dangerous.

        There is a Li-Ion battery technology much less prone to thermal runaway (LiFePO4) and some cars use it. It’s greatly safer and has about five times greater battery longevity, but it’s also about twenty percent heavier. I think it’s a fair trade-off to avoid a fiery death.

        Most Teslas use LiFePO4 (commonly called LFP) batteries. Most other manufactures still use NMC barriers. Both are far safer than the explosive dinosaur juice that ICE vehicles run on.

      • @ghariksforge
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        01 year ago

        These don’t test self driving features, which are the source of the problem. FSR and Autopilot are unsafe according to NHTSA data.

        • @Chreutz
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          41 year ago

          Euro NCAP test lane keeping, auto braking etc, and the 2022 Model Y scored 98%, the highest ever.

        • @weinermeat
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          11 year ago

          Do you own a Tesla? Basic autopilot is merely lane keeping combined with automatic cruise control. The car begs you to pay attention when you turn it on. Would you turn on cruise control and then take a nap? It’s the same thing. Users of autopilot need to pay attention at all times.

        • @[email protected]
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          01 year ago

          TACC, AEB, FCW, LA and a bunch of other aspects of Autopilot are all tested, and have done extremely well.

          IIHS have probably the most stringent testing in the world, and they ranked the Model 3 the safest car ever tested. The Model Y was the second safest car ever tested.

      • FuglyDuck
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        -11 year ago

        Maybe if they remembered to do the quality control check.