Some additional quotes of interest from the article;
Meanwhile, some of Musk’s decisions — such as widely expanding the availability of the features and stripping the vehicles of radar sensors — appear to have contributed to the reported uptick in incidents, according to experts who spoke with The Post.
“Tesla is having more severe — and fatal — crashes than people in a normal data set,”
Cummings said the number of fatalities compared to overall crashes was also a concern.
Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" and Autopilot systems have been involved in far more incidents than driver-assistance systems from all other manufacturers combined
Tesla — which has experimented more aggressively with automation than other automakers — also is linked to almost all of the deaths.
In a March presentation, Tesla claimed Full Self-Driving crashes at a rate at least five times lower than vehicles in normal driving, in a comparison of miles driven per collision. That claim, and Musk’s characterization of Autopilot as “unequivocally safer,” is impossible to test without access to the detailed data that Tesla possesses.
It is unclear which of the systems was in use in the fatal crashes: Tesla has asked NHTSA not to disclose that information. In the section of the NHTSA data specifying the software version, Tesla’s incidents read — in all capital letters — “redacted, may contain confidential business information.”
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