It's like comparing your primary care doc's outcomes against a world-class brain surgeon. More people come out of the PCP's office alive, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're the better doctor.
“we registered one accident for every 3.07 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged.”
And then: “By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 479,000 miles”
This is true. It’s also a complete lie.
It’s set up to make you think that this proves Autopilot is safer than human drivers, but it compares a national stat for all cars in all possible driving conditions to a Tesla stat for high end cars in good weather freeway driving. The latter are inherently much safer.
But so many people are falling for this blatant lying - plenty of examples in this thread alone.
I hate that this works for them, and that it just encourages others to lie similarly. I wish we had higher standards, as a society.
Does the car disengaging autopilot and smashing into something a quarter second later count as an "autopilot engaged" crash?