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[Revoltingest]

Humans aren't promoted as being infallible.
Telsas are, but they aren't. Amd worse yet drivers do tend to pay less attention to the road and take their eyes off it when they use autopilot.

Doesn't matter how Tesla advertises or how people
feel about them. The reality of people vs human
drivers is what matters.

 

[Revoltingest]

I figured that based on an average of 33,7k U.S, auto accident fatalities per year times the 8 years from year 2014 to the current year 2022,

Motor vehicle fatality rate in U.S. by year - Wikipedia

Tesla Model S and Model X cars "built between September 2014 and October 2016 included first generation Autopilot hardware: one camera, a first-generation radar and ultrasonic sensors."

Autopilot and Full Self-Driving Capability | Tesla

The self-driving Tesla I rode in (with an engineer
monitoring things) did well. Although he spotted
a couple glitches to inform Tesla of.
It's a very good work in progress.

Note: I say this as someone who loathes Elon Musk.

 

[Wu Wei]

The self-driving Tesla I rode in (with an engineer
monitoring things) did well. Although he spotted
a couple glitches to inform Tesla of.
It's a very good work in progress.

Note: I say this as someone who loathes Elon Musk.

A problem they discovered with the Tesla Autopilot was that it had a hard time sensing vehicle traveling perpendicular to their path. Which was the cause of a few accidents and at least one death in Florida

 

[Revoltingest]

A problem they discovered with the Tesla Autopilot was that it had a hard time sensing vehicle traveling perpendicular to their path. Which was the cause of a few accidents and at least one death in Florida

There are other problems too.
So many to solve....yet it works, & is improving.
Human drivers aren't getting better, especially
in Ameristan. (I notice that German drivers are
better....getting a license is much harder there.)

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Doesn't matter how Tesla advertises or how people
feel about them. The reality of people vs human
drivers is what matters.

There are some circumstances the autopilot isn't that good or reliable. Freeways they do just fine in regular driving (where most owners use it). But in cities or anywhere there's a lot going on that's when they struggle. Teslas, according to their owners manual, have a harder time detecting stationary objects if the car is going over 50 MPH (Elon Musk has really overhyped the hell out of how reliable and complete the system is). It's in these environments they get into wrecks, especially with the possibility of an erroneous acceleration or braking happening.
Easily predictable environments there really doesn't seem to be much of a concern as far as the vehicle goes. But in more unpredictable environments it's best to not use it, especially if you're already a defensive driver.
And what makes this worse is Tesla lets the general public do the testing for them, largely and mostly on those who do not have any knowledge of it going on and not consented to participating in any part of it. Every other company has specifically trained drivers testing these programs and working out the bugs. We don't generally know that's going on either, but they're being far more responsible about it.