Tesla said this is the first fatality in 130 million miles of autopilot, which is within cooee of than the US national average 88 million miles per fatality. If this single data point is at the average frequency, and the road and conditions were average death risk, and the software and sensors never improve over time the safety margin for autopilot is not that great. But, of course, these assumptions are going to be wrong.
Interestingly, Tesla also say the their data demonstrate that autopilot plus driver attention is significantly safer that driver control which I'd believe. However, I don't believe that drivers will remain attentive once they decide the car is safe. Jim _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
