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95 Tesla deaths have involved fires or Autopilot. How the EV maker fares in fatalities per million miles.
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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Much less deaths than without the feature turned on and much much less than other cars.
That site is behind a paywall to me so this might've been addressed, but to play devils advocate I'm wondering about the rate of incidents between Tesla and all other manufacturers combined?
Now it could just be that I'm in the Midwest, where we're only ahead of the south when it comes to adopting changes, but I practically see no other EVs still other than Teslas. I'm talking 8 Teslas before I see one Chevy Volte or something
You don't have to be an EV to have self driving features. My non-EV Audi has self sriving features.
It should be normalized per mile. If it isn't, then this data means absolutely nothing. Of course, we can't read it to verify the claim.
Per million miles, in the lead
Paywall Protip: use an archive service to read paywalled articles. Archive.is works great
https://archive.is/20230620203555/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/
If you use Firefox, there is an add-on called web archives that makes things easier
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Do they also get used more often than all other manufacturers combined? What matters here is the rate of accidents, and this statement tells us nothing about the rate of accidents.
The evidence for this claim is lacking.
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