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I mean, are humans really any better?
I know it's not the answer you're looking for but, what is safer for pedestrians, cyclists and other drivers, is to have less cars on the roads. Buses can move dozens of people with a single trained professional driver. Trains can move hundreds. It's illogical to try to push for autonomous cars for individuals when we already have "self driving" technologies that are much much safer and much more efficient.
I agree. That’s why I don’t own a car.
Depends on the Autopilot feature.
I was test driving model 3 and summon almost ran over a little kid in the parking lot until my wife ran in front of the car.
At least when my car’s collision sensors misread something, my eyeballs are there for redundancy.
Someone paying proper attention probably would be. But a huge chunk of accidents happen because idiots are looking at their phones or fall asleep on the wheel, and at least a self driving cars, even Teslas on Autopilot, won't do that.
No, they just relinquish control to a sleepy driver without a warning whenever they are about to crash.
We aren’t at the point yet — with any self-drive car — where you should be behind the wheel unless you’re absolutely capable of taking over in seconds.
If you are referring to autopilot, yeah, technically it does that - it turns off once it realises it can't do anything anymore to avoid the collision so that it doesn't speed off afterwards due to damaged sensor or glitches etc. But the whole "autopilot turns off so it doesn't show in statistics" was a blatant lie as Tesla counts all crashes where it has been on before the crash.
Do they count the times the human driver had to take control to avoid a crash?
In the case the crash happened later than 5 seconds after Autopilot was disabled, or it was never used in the first place, it would be in the "Tesla vehicles not using autopilot technology" part of the data.
As for automatically detecting not-crashes, that's a bit harder to do don't ya think?
What? No. Of course not.