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Tesla has published the most detailed look at the performance and relative safety of its advanced driver-assistance software, just a few weeks after Waymo\u2019s co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana at TechCrunch Disrupt called on companies to release more data.<\/p>\n
On a new section of its website, Tesla claims that in North America, owners using the company\u2019s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software are driving around 5 million miles before a major collision and around 1.5 million miles before a minor collision.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a far lower rate than the national average based on statistics provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). That data shows people get in a major collision every 699,000 miles, and a minor one every 229,000, at least according to Tesla\u2019s interpretation.<\/p>\n
Tesla has been releasing \u201cvehicle safety reports\u201d on a quarter-by-quarter basis for a while. But those reports have been repeatedly panned for being insufficient. And Tesla has released almost no information about the safety performance of the Robotaxi trial it\u2019s been running in Austin, Texas, this year, which still has employees in the driver\u2019s seat monitoring for safety reasons.<\/p>\n
Waymo, the leading robotaxi company in the U.S. at the moment based on cars deployed and customers served, has published detailed data showing its vehicles are around 5x safer than human drivers, and 12x safer with respect to pedestrians. At last month\u2019s Disrupt conference, Mawakana was asked to name other companies she felt were making roads safer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know who\u2019s on that list, because they\u2019re not telling us what\u2019s happening with their fleets,\u201d said Mawakana, without naming Tesla.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there is a responsibility, if you\u2019re going to put vehicles on the road, and you\u2019re going to remove the driver from behind the wheel, and you\u2019re going to have someone in some other room observing the fleet who can take over their vehicles, it is incumbent upon you to be transparent about what\u2019s happening,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd if you are not being transparent, then it is my view that you are not doing what is necessary in order to actually earn the right to make the road safer.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<\/span> Waymo didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment Friday about whether Mawakana believes Tesla\u2019s new data is sufficient.<\/p>\n One of the repeated criticisms of Tesla\u2019s quarterly safety reports is that it focused on Autopilot, a far less advanced driver-assistance system than the Full Self Driving (Supervised) software, or FSD \u2014 which, despite its name, does not make a car fully autonomous. Autopilot was designed to be used on highways, which typically see a lower rate of crashes (when including minor collisions).<\/p>\n Tesla has finally broken out all this data. The new section of Tesla\u2019s website claims that drivers using FSD travel about 2.9 million miles between major collisions, while NHTSA data shows all drivers travel about 505,000 miles per major collision. Tesla claims FSD users drive about 986,000 miles between minor collisions, while NHTSA data shows all drivers travel around 178,000 miles per minor collision.<\/p>\n Tesla is also finally showing how it defines these terms for the first time. <\/p>\n The carmaker is using the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, specifically 49 C.F.R. \u00a7 563.5. Tesla defines \u201cmajor collisions\u201d as crashes with higher-severity impacts where a vehicle\u2019s airbags \u201cor other non-reversible pyrotechnic restraints\u201d are deployed. The company also says that if FSD was active \u201cat any point within five seconds leading up to a collision event,\u201d then it includes that crash in this dataset.<\/p>\n \u201cThis calculation ensures that our reported collision rates for FSD (Supervised) capture not only collisions that occur while the system is actively controlling the vehicle, but also scenarios where a driver may disengage the system or where the system aborts on its own shortly before impact,\u201d Tesla says.<\/p>\n In its FAQ section, Tesla states that it will update the data every quarter and that it will \u201creflect a rolling twelve-month aggregation of miles and collisions in an effort to remain relevant to recent trends and progress.\u201d The company says it won\u2019t release other information, like injury rates, because it is collecting this data automatically from the vehicles.<\/p>\n \u201cInstead, Tesla focuses on objective and programmatic metrics such as collision frequency and airbag deployment rates. Airbag deployments serve as a reliable proxy for collision severity,\u201d the company writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tesla has published the most detailed look at the performance and relative safety of its advanced driver-assistance software, just a few weeks after Waymo\u2019s co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana at TechCrunch Disrupt called on companies to release more data. On a new section of its website, Tesla claims that in North America, owners using the company\u2019s Full<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[2554,19311,1111,19310,2308,293,253,1381,9134],"class_list":{"0":"post-33811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-called","9":"tag-coceo","10":"tag-data","11":"tag-detailed","12":"tag-releases","13":"tag-report","14":"tag-safety","15":"tag-tesla","16":"tag-waymo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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