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For years, Tesla and its supporters have waved away detailed investigations tying Autopilot's design to multiple deaths, claiming that the safety benefits outweighed them.
Now, finally, we have published academic work proving that Autopilot has no safety benefits, when you adjust the numbers for road type and driver age. In fact crashes appear to be 11% higher with Autopilot!
Huge thanks to Noah Goodall of the Virginia Transportation Research Council for this work!
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19439962.2023.2178566?journalCode=utss20
You can find the [free] updated preprint of Noah's paper debunking Tesla's Autopilot safety claims here: https://engrxiv.org/preprint/view/1973/version/4094
I have a particular interest in Noah Goodall's debunking of Tesla's Autopilot safety claims because I wrote a post roughly outlining the same critique for The Daily Beast when Tesla started making these claims back in 2016.
You can read that here: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-tesla-and-elon-musk-exaggeraged-safety-claims-about-autopilot-and-cars
@niedermeyer This is pretty interesting but ambiguously worded. The ultimate adjusted crash rate was 11% higher than what? 11% higher than 10% lower than the Level 2 average? Unparseable.