1) Autosteer and active safety features are not "autopilot", its adaptive cruise control.
2) if they think something bad is about to happen, it beeps and hands over control, thus its the drivers fault, as the system wasn't engaged at the time of the crash
3) its not their self driving tech.
2) Tesla count 5 seconds after a disengagement and count it as a fault of autopilot if a crash occurs.
3) It's part of their self driving tech, but it's different to FSD - yes.
They may have the worlds best driver assist features, but they have yet to produce a product that drives itself in any capacity.
The SAE is looking at a different performance hurdle between levels 2 and 3: reliability.
If you ask a normal person on the street what "autopilot" means in a car, you'll get a range of answers. But the consistent opinion is that autopilot means that you don't need to concentrate. Most will say that its automatic driving, and will drive for you.
But autosteer requires concentration. Its just sparkling lane assist.
> it's different to FSD - yes.
Which is the point. Its marketing fluff. Autopilot isn't really that, its adaptive cruise control with lane assist. Thats the thing that rankles. All of this stupidity, injury, and noise comes from a marketing decision. One designed to cover up that the CEO over promised and wildly under delivered _yet again_.
"NHTSA's Flawed Autopilot Safety Study Unmasked (2019) - The safety regulator's claim that Autopilot reduces crashes by 40% was based on flawed data and analysis, which it attempted to keep secret.": https://www.thedrive.com/tech/26455/nhtsas-flawed-autopilot-...
"Tesla Autopilot Safety Stats Said Imbued With Statistical Fallacies, Interpret Cautiously": https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2019/06/09/tesla-aut...
"In 2017, the feds said Tesla Autopilot cut crashes 40%—that was bogus": https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/02/in-2017-the-feds-said-t...
1. NHTSA has reiterated that its data came from Tesla, and has not been verified by an independent party (as it noted in a footnote in the report).
2. Second, it says its investigators did not consider whether the driver was using Autopilot at the time of each crash. (Reminder: Drivers are only supposed to use Autopilot in very specific contexts.)
3. And third, airbag deployments are an inexact proxy for crashes.
... which all sound like really flimsy reasons to conclude "doesn't stack up." A more honest summary based on those would be something like "hasn't been verified by a 3rd party yet."
It's incredible how openly the media makes things up about Tesla, likely just to generate page impressions.
https://twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1488673180403191808
The primary issue is that the data doesn't adjust for road classification in any way. Highway driving, where autopilot is used, has considerably fewer crashes per mile than city driving. Tesla compared Autopilot's rates against all driving rather than just highway driving which would be the relevant metric.
That adjustment alone almost completely eliminates any safety advantage of Autopilot before you get into any of the other adjustments like age.
It's like this:
Tesla: Look how great we are, our apple is redder than their orange.
Critic: It doesn't make sense to compare the colors of those things in that way. Here's why ...
You: So being a redder apple should now be disregarded?
Could you explain the flaw in Tesla data? How is crashes/mile not a good proxy for safety?
But this is not FSD , is a combo of human + some driver assistance, come back when Elon discloses how many times the human was forced to intervene to prevent a crash.
I am wondering why Tesla fans think this stats are proving that so called FSD is safe , don't you understand stats? did PR tricked you,? this proves that soem assistant like one keeping safe distance between cars is safer, make all the data public and let us compute the real stats please.
If you only engage Autopilot in the easiest situations to drive in, it might look safer artificially because of that.
Comparing a Tesla to all vehicles means old cars with less safety features enter the picture, skewing the statistics again.