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Someone paying proper attention, probably. But a huge chunk of accidents happen because idiots are looking at their phones or fall asleep on the wheel, and at least a self driving cars won’t do that.

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Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No, they just relinquish control to a sleepy driver without a warning whenever they are about to crash.

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- JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you are referring to autopilot, yeah, technically it does that - it turns off once it realises it can’t do anything anymore to avoid the collision so that it doesn’t speed off afterwards due to damaged sensor or glitches etc. But the whole “autopilot turns off so it doesn’t show in statistics” was a blatant lie as Tesla counts all crashes where it has been on before the crash.
  
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  - tagliatelle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Do they count the times the human driver had to take control to avoid a crash?
    
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    JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    We also receive a crash alert anytime a crash is reported to us from the fleet, which may include data about whether Autopilot was active at the time of impact. To ensure our statistics are conservative, we count any crash in which Autopilot was deactivated within 5 seconds before impact, and we count all crashes in which the incident alert indicated an airbag or other active restraint deployed.
    
    www.tesla.com/en_eu/VehicleSafetyReport
    
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