> This is important because Autopilot has proven itself to be safer than a human driver by a significant degree: a crash only occurs with Autopilot engaged approximately every 2.87 million miles, as opposed to traditional cars being manually driven which results in a crash every 436,000 miles.
This is an extraordinarily deceptive statistic, since it compares:
- Predominantly highway miles (driven on Autopilot) to miles driven in the overall mix of conditions where incidents are much more common
- Incidents in Tesla's relatively new vehicle fleet, which has safety features like AEB, to vehicles of all ages and technology levels in the entire U.S. fleet
- The Tesla driving demographic (usually wealthier drivers using better maintained roads) to drivers across all demographic categories
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- Predominantly highway miles (driven on Autopilot) to miles driven in the overall mix of conditions where incidents are much more common
- Incidents in Tesla's relatively new vehicle fleet, which has safety features like AEB, to vehicles of all ages and technology levels in the entire U.S. fleet
- The Tesla driving demographic (usually wealthier drivers using better maintained roads) to drivers across all demographic categories