Tesla assisted driving accidents account for 70% of the United States? Musk backs company statement: "Yes"

　　Tesla accidents involving driver assistance technology account for 70% of total US NHTSA statistics?

In this regard, Musk has something to say.

　　On June 15, local time, Tesla's official website issued a document "Tesla driver assistance systems are much less likely to crash than Waymo, Transdev or GM's Cruise, according to NHTSA data", Tesla CEO Elon Musk also reposted the article on Twitter with the caption "Correct" (yes).

　　The release of the Tesla article comes in response to two new reports released by the U.S. federal government on the same day.

For the first time, the report discloses statistics on crashes and fatalities involving autonomous vehicles (AVs) and vehicles equipped with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS): 392 incidents involving autonomous vehicles (AV) and vehicles equipped with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS): 392 incidents between June 1, 2021 and May 15, 2022 In the accident of ADAS technology, 6 people were killed and 5 people were seriously injured.

Teslas with Autopilot or related self-driving features accounted for 273 of those, and five were fatal crashes.

The remaining Waymo reported 62 incidents, Transdev reported 34, and Cruise reported 23 incidents.

　　The data report stems from a regular NHTSA order issued last year requiring auto companies to report incidents involving AVs and Level 2 driver assistance systems found in hundreds of thousands of vehicles currently on the road to assess Whether the technology has security risks.

L2 generally means that the vehicle can autonomously control steering, acceleration and deceleration, but humans can control the car at any time.

　　Technology media The Verge said that car and technology companies insist that self-driving, assisted driving technology can save lives, but more people died in car accidents last year than in the past three years.

More data is needed to determine precisely whether these new systems are making roads safer or just making driving easier.

　　For this data, Tesla explained that "the regulator's data only shows the number of accidents and does not take into account the size of the fleet and the distance traveled, but a little bit deeper, you will find that compared to Waymo, Transdev and GM's Cruise, the use of Tesla vehicles with driver assistance systems are much less likely to crash.”

　　The argument presented in this article is that the data provided by NHTSA lacks critical context such as fleet size, miles driven, and therefore cannot fairly compare the safety of different technologies.

　　According to previous public data, Waymo's official fleet is 600 vehicles, Transdev's global fleet consists of 24,600 buses in 13 countries, and the Cruise fleet is about 34,000 vehicles.

As of March 2022, Tesla has 1,393,122 vehicles on U.S. roads.

　　So the article points out that Tesla cars have an accident probability of less than 0.02% compared to others, while Waymo is around 10% and Cruise has a probability of around 0.07%.

"A little digging into the details shows that Tesla uses a system that exhibits the highest level of safety of any system on the market today," the article reads.

　　"These technologies hold great promise for improving safety, but we need to understand how these vehicles will perform in the real world," NHTSA chief Steven Cliff said at a media briefing. Safety is built into every stage of development, and driver assistance technology and automation are no exception.”

　　NHTSA also pointed out that these raw data lack suitable context and can only be used to quickly identify potential defect trends and to determine whether driver assistance systems can actually improve vehicle safety.

Due to a number of limitations, the data should not be used to draw conclusions about the technical safety of any automaker.

　　Next, each month NHTSA will disclose new data.

Steven Cliff said, "Autonomous driving is a good development, but the agency needs to maintain data transparency. We aim to collect near real-time safety data for autonomous driving technology and explore the essence of the data. This is an unprecedented effort. , and that’s what NHTSA needs to do.”