[slg]

>IIRC, Subaru and other companies pass these simple emergency braking tests 100% of the time.

They do not pass 100% of the time unless you have a very narrow definition of "these simple emergency braking tests". No emergency braking system is foolproof.

>But its a well known fact that Tesla repeatedly fails at these simple tests,

You say this while at the same time the source you include has Tesla in the middle tier of results.

Either way, my point is not that Teslas are safe or that they perform well on this test. The point is that this test does not tell you whether a car being driven by Autopilot is safer than a human.

[dragontamer]

> They do not pass 100% of the time unless you have a very narrow definition of "these simple emergency braking tests"

Lets get them working consistently under well defined, standard, simple, emergency braking tests before worrying about the real world.

Like not hitting a balloon dressed up as a pedestrian during clear skies in sunny weather. I don't care about rainy days until we get the bright / sunny weather figured out.

[slg]

>Lets get them working consistently under well defined, standard, simple, emergency braking tests before worrying about the real world.

Automatic emergency braking is the exact wrong feature to use for your example. Either the driver sees the pedestrian, stops in time, and the automatic emergency braking is of no use or the driver would have hit the pedestrian and any effort from the automatic system is a benefit. This is the type of feature that should be deployed as soon as possible assuming it is not tuned too aggressively to stop at false alarms.