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The issue is when there is a crash or a death could that situation have been avoided if the driver was looking ahead with two hands on the wheel, like you would in any other car without the marketing hype.

I've seen more then enough crashes and deaths in Telsas that were perfectly avoidable providing the driver wasn't watching their ipad.

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Really? I've been driving for over forty years (about 15k km per year) and I have never seen a death involving any car let alone the relatively rare Tesla.

I've seen emergency vehicles attending a crash perhaps once or twice a year but never seen the crash occur. In fact the only ones I have personal first hand experience of is the time I rear ended a car, the two times that I was rear ended, and the time I slid off the road on an icy corner. All three rear ending events were relatively low speed incidents (under 30 km/h) and would quite likely have been mitigated or even completely avoided if the cars in question had had automatic emergency braking. The icy corner was my own fault for not thinking ahead.

So, to me, your statement, without some more context, sounds like an exaggeration.

I too have been driving some some time now but we have this thing called the internet, where you can see and share information.

Lemme help you out friend - https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tesla+autopilot...

So you didn't mean: "I've seen more then enough crashes and deaths in Telsas"

you meant: "I have heard about .." or "I have seen accounts of .."

Those are not quite the same thing.

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