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by semi-extrinsic 3606 days ago
Well, given the current safety level of new cars, which is coming down towards 1 fatality per one billion miles driven, and a fleet of 100 000 vehicles driving autonomously for 10 000 miles per year, you need to collect data for five to ten years just to show that your autonomous cars are safer than regular cars.

Tesla, with the current AutoPilot, will have to collect data for closer to 20 years in order to have good enough statistics to claim AutoPilot is safer. (Since AutoPilot only works in some situations, they wont get 10 000 miles per year.)