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Seven times safer than a human driver? Really?
Tesla has been notoriously cagey about FSD’s (Full Self-Driving) safety data. It is almost like Elon is trying to hide something. After all, it isn’t like the third-party data, or even the scant data Tesla has previously released, blatantly prove that FSD is wildly dangerous… However, that has now changed, and the critics like myself have been proven wrong. How? Well, Tesla recently published a live website that compares FSD to the national driver average, taking the total distance driven and number of accidents from both, and it shows that FSD is seven times safer than a human driver! Incredible! Miraculous! Surely Tesla will dominate the self-driving era, right? Well, if you dig a little deeper, a very different narrative emerges.
This data takes the total miles and total vehicle incidents from trusted government sources and compares them to Tesla’s own data on FSD. Now, Tesla has been accused of trying to make FSD look better by turning it off just before an accident and classifying said accident as being caused by the human, but they haven’t done that here. Instead, Tesla’s collision attribution method is, “If FSD (Supervised) was active at any point within five seconds leading up to a collision event, Tesla considers the collision to have occurred with FSD (Supervised) engaged.” Seems…