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Tesla has the most fatalities resulting from the use of its advanced driving/self-driving systems. Literally, Tesla has more such fatalities than every other automaker in the world, combined. Based on data through 2023, Tesla's advanced driving/self-driving systems were involved in 40x more crashes resulting in death or serious injury than the next most dangerous advanced driving system (at the time, GM) and more than 100x than the least dangerous advanced driving system (at the time, Toyota).

And the numbers have just gotten worse for Tesla: FSD has been involved in at least 6 fatalities this year, and Autopilot in at least another dozen. Their competitors? Just 1, and that was several years ago.




6 million cars equipped with the ADAS (FAR more than anyone else), so your statement is misleading.


No, the statement is accurate.

To put things in perspective, Toyota and Ford each sold 1.5 million cars with ADAS in the U.S. last year alone (they both sold more than 1.5 million cars in the U.S., but the remainder were the low-end models without ADAS). GM sold 2 million cars in the U.S with ADAS last year, out of more than 2.5+ million cars sold). These numbers don't include vehicles with ADAS sold in other markets.

IOW, three companies alone sold more cars in the U.S. with ADAS in a single year than Tesla has sold globally in its entire lifespan. And yet...Tesla's ADAS is responsible for fatalities than every other automaker in the world combined.

And that's because no other automaker gives its customers unrealistic expectations of what the ADAS will do, so all of their customers use the ADAS systems responsibly.




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