So this popped up today on my feed. It seems scarrrry - but let's put it in context for a moment.
Breaking News: Over the course of 10 months, nearly 400 car crashes in the U.S. involved advanced driver-assistance technologies, data from the country's top auto-safety regulator revealed.https://t.co/YVJr0zqNQe
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 15, 2022
Isn't that horrible! Those damn Teslas are only trouble!
But wait. Let's look at the real statistics in context.
400 crashes out of the 6,000,000+ accidents for the last reported non-Covid year. That is 0.00667%.
But Tesla delivered 930, 422 of the 15,000,000 + cars sold in 2021. That is 6.2% of cars were self-driving and the rate is 100 times less for self-driving cars. So the rate of accidents is SIGNIFICANTLY less in Teslas.
As for deaths. 6 deaths were caused by self-driving cars. 6 of the of the 38,000 people were killed in Teslas with self-driving. That is 0.015789 rate of deaths. Again 100 times lower than th percentage of Teslas.
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