Tesla’s New Safety Data Claims Autopilot Makes You 8 Times Safer (Maybe)

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Tesla’s New Safety Data Claims Autopilot Makes You 8 Times Safer (Maybe)
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The data indicates a crash rate of one per 7.63 million miles driven with Autopilot, compared to one per 955,000 miles without

After more than a year Tesla has released updated safety data including accidents on Autopilot. It indicates that Tesla vehicles are generally safer and several times safer when Autopilot is engaged. At the same time, the data metric isn't a perfect measure of actual safety. Discussions about Tesla and its safety record draw in opinions from both sides of the debate. In part, that's due to very little data on the reality that lies in the middle.

63 million miles driven in which drivers were using Autopilot technology. For drivers who were not using Autopilot technology, we recorded one crash for every 955,000 miles driven. By comparison, the most recent data available from NHTSA and FHWA shows that in the United States there was an automobile crash approximately every 670,000 miles. Dating back through all of 2023, the lowest number of miles driven between accidents on Autopilot was 5.18 million Tesla says.

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