According to my analysis of a similar youtube corpus, dashcam owners end up in accidents once every 30 seconds, so this is a vast improvement. Not to mention the meteor strikes.
Uh, but dashcam videos you see on YouTube are there specifically because something interesting happened in the video. From my reading of the article, it's not like these analysts or whatever just watched a bunch of "Tesla self driving fails compilation" videos. Maybe their corpus isn't entirely representative of self-driving, I can't tell from the article, but I don't see what you're basing your conclusions on.
Maybe I'm missing something, I didn't read the article thoroughly and I'm not familiar with the work. If I am missing something, please enlighten me.
EDIT: I took a look at the report, and, well:
21 YouTube videos, totaling over 7 hours of drive time, from customers test driving Tesla’s FSD Beta program were analyzed for driving quality and safety. The videos analyzed in this study included FSD Beta major versions v8 (released December 2020) and v10 (released September 2021). Videos with significantly positive or negative titles were avoided in an attempt to reduce bias. There was an effort to analyze videos from as many unique YouTube channels as possible. As a result, the analyzed videos contain a variety of driving conditions, with varying times of day, weather conditions, traffic patterns, and locations.
I... don't think your "corpus" of dashcam videos is similar to the corpus used by this analysis.
At best it's a valid opening gambit in a discussion of the merits of driving automation. It's not a scientific review, it's one guy's quick filtering of hyperbolic titles plus whatever bias is imposed by his personal YouTube bubble.
Dashcam videos have the same self selection bias. People don't upload boring successes at the same rate they upload exciting failures. The ratio probably exceeds thousands to one. For every hour of Tesla autopilot video showing a failure, there are probably thousands or tens of thousands of hours of boring, safe, uneventful driving that isn't recorded, uploaded, or even noticed.
Getting the statistics from regulators and public reports paints a picture starkly different than what media portrays, because it's boring and doesn't result in clicks.
"Yay, nothing bad happened" is the ultimate goal, but along the way "less bad stuff happened" is the story to pay attention to.
Maybe I'm missing something, I didn't read the article thoroughly and I'm not familiar with the work. If I am missing something, please enlighten me.
EDIT: I took a look at the report, and, well:
21 YouTube videos, totaling over 7 hours of drive time, from customers test driving Tesla’s FSD Beta program were analyzed for driving quality and safety. The videos analyzed in this study included FSD Beta major versions v8 (released December 2020) and v10 (released September 2021). Videos with significantly positive or negative titles were avoided in an attempt to reduce bias. There was an effort to analyze videos from as many unique YouTube channels as possible. As a result, the analyzed videos contain a variety of driving conditions, with varying times of day, weather conditions, traffic patterns, and locations.
I... don't think your "corpus" of dashcam videos is similar to the corpus used by this analysis.