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by simondotau 345 days ago
All of your statistics are wrong.

Your first claim is baseless, as no statistics exist to make that claim. Tesla is the only major manufacturer which voluntarily provides all crash information to regulators. No other major manufacturer collects and discloses comparable statistics. Therefore it cannot be asserted that ADAS-involved deaths are more frequent in Tesla vehicles.

It's often said that Autopilot is uniquely dangerous because it gives drivers a false sense of confidence. This is a "feels true" claim. However, many other manufacturers have ADAS systems which exceed the technical AND subjective performance of Tesla Autopilot. On that basis, we should assume that ADAS-involved fatality rates are higher with those brands.

Your second claim exceeds the data published by both reputable AND biased sources. Even if true, that still places FSD well over an order of magnitude more safe than human drivers, with a supposed 3 deaths compared to the expected 48 deaths with human-piloted vehicles.

As for your last sentence, overuse of cutting comments makes them dull.