Tesla is used to release a “Vehicle Safety Report” that tracked miles between accidents in it’s vehicles based on the level of Autopilot user of not used as competed to industry average.
This time also a new report releases the safety information about Tesla that has been out affirming a slight improvement in miles between Autopilot crashes.
Tesla used this report to assert that its Autopilot technology resulted in a much safer driving experience. And that its vehicles would crash much less often than the other average car in the US even without Autopilot
In the released report for Q2 2024 automaker reveled:-
In the 2nd quarter, we recorded one crash for every 6.88 million miles driven in which drivers were using Autopilot technology. For drivers who were not using Autopilot technology, we recorded one crash for every 1.45 million miles driven. By comparison, the most recent data available from NHTSA and FHWA (from 2022) shows that in the United States there was an automobile crash approximately every 670,000 miles.
The data was always limited and criticized for not considering that accidents are more common on city roads and undivided roads than on the highways, where Autopilot is most commonly used.
It releases that there is a decrease in miles between crashes quarter-over-quarter, but it is better to look at it year-over-year because accidents are more frequent depending on the season.
This shows year-over-year Tesla improvement. But the data doesn’t include information about Full Self-Driving (FSD), although that has gotten murky lately since Tesla now uses the same software stacks with limited functionalities for Autopilot.
