> The way Elon Musk tells it, they put it into production once it was safer per mile than human drivers. Which seems like a legitimate point.
It's also only used/active when it is reasonably able to work. Therefore the miles used are inherently better/safer as it is (much less whiteout / torrential AP driving).
This is a luxury human drivers do not have, short of "do not drive those miles at all".
I have always hated this metric. It's disingenuous, and selective.
Precisely. During one nasty ice storm at night I might see more wrecked cars in a single hour than I see the rest of the year combined. And no currently available automation system would dare operate in those conditions, so human drivers take a huge statistical hit from conditions like that but the computers don't. All of these 'safer than humans' metrics are apples to oranges.
So look to other metrics, like the effect on crashes before and after the introduction of the autopilot feature. But those also show a safety improvement.
They may not be taking the hardest miles, but the only way to improve the overall average is to be doing better than the status quo on the miles they are taking.
It's also only used/active when it is reasonably able to work. Therefore the miles used are inherently better/safer as it is (much less whiteout / torrential AP driving).
This is a luxury human drivers do not have, short of "do not drive those miles at all".
I have always hated this metric. It's disingenuous, and selective.