Tesla releases safety report after Waymo co-CEO’s comments
Tesla has released a detailed safety report of its advanced driver-assistance software weeks after Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana called on companies to release more data. On a new section of its website, Tesla addressed claims in relation to customers using its Full Self-Driving (supervised) software.
According to Tesla, users in North America using the software drive around about 5 million miles before facing any major collision, and around 1.5 million miles before any minor collision. The data is at a much lower rate than the national average based on the statistics provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The NHTSA data shows that people get into a major collision every 699,000 miles and a minor one every 299,000, at least according to the interpretation put forward by the firm.
However, Tesla has finally released all this data. The new section of the website claims that drivers using FSD travel about 2.9 million miles before any major collisions, while NHTSA data shows that all drivers travel about 505,000 miles before any collision. Tesla mentioned that FSD drivers travel about 986,000 miles between minor collisions, while NHTSA data shows that all drivers drive around 178,000 miles per minor collision.
Tesla has also shown how it defined these terms for the first time. The company is using the Federal Motor Safety Standards. The firm defines major collisions as collisions with higher impact where airbags and other non-reversible restraints are deployed. The company then mentioned that if FSD was active at any point within five seconds leading up to a collision, then it includes the crash in the data set.
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