On January 15, Tesla released its vehicle safety report for the fourth quarter of 2021, which shows that its vehicles using autopilot are nine times safer than other vehicles driven by humans on U.S. roads.
In the U.S., drivers drive an average of one crash per 484,000 miles, according to NHTSA. According to Tesla's safety report, in the fourth quarter of 2021, drivers use Tesla autopilot, and every 4.31 million miles traveled will only have a car accident, using Tesla autopilot, nine times safer than human drivers.
The data also shows that Tesla Autopilot will improve over time, and its safety performance has improved since the fourth quarter of 2020, when the data was that Tesla Autopilot will have an accident on average for 3.45 million miles. Drivers who don't use Tesla AutoPilot and Tesla's active safety features are more likely to get into a crash, with the report showing an average of one accident per 1.59 million miles they drive.
In this way, whether it is compared with the probability of a car accident in all cars, or compared with the driver who does not use Tesla autopilot, the probability of a car accident will be lower if you use Tesla autopilot.
Beginning in September 2014, all Tesla vehicles have come standard with active safety features that provide additional software security beyond the physical structure of the vehicle. Tesla will also use vehicle data to better understand how accidents occur. After data analysis, Tesla will make improvements to the autopilot system and active safety features.
In China, automatic driving is locked at the level of laws and regulations at the L2 level, and only in a few test sections can the L3 level of automatic driving be legally used, but it is only used as a vehicle test or a special vehicle, and the vehicle and the driver are provided by the car company, and are not open to social personnel and vehicles.
However, China is also accelerating the development of autonomous driving, and in December 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the "14th Five-Year Plan" Information and Communication Industry Development Plan, which focuses on "accelerating the deployment and application of the Internet of Vehicles". In the future, the top-level design of C-V2X-based Vehicle Networking infrastructure deployment will be strengthened, and the "combination of sections and blocks" will promote the upgrading and transformation of highway Vehicle Networking and the construction of national Vehicle Networking Pilot Zone. Coordinate the development of smart city infrastructure and intelligent networked vehicles, actively carry out urban pilots, and promote multi-scenario applications.
On the afternoon of January 12, 2022, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology held an online press conference to introduce the development of China's automotive industry. Guo Shougang, deputy director of the First Department of Equipment Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at the press conference that with the joint efforts of all parties concerned, China's intelligent networked vehicles have shown a strong momentum of development, with a national open test area of 5,000 square kilometers, a total test mileage of more than 10 million kilometers, more than 800 road test licenses, more than 3,500 kilometers of roads to achieve intelligent transformation and upgrading, and the automatic driving application of large-scale port freight vehicles accounted for 50%.
Although China has the world's most complete 5G network system and the largest number of 5G users, it has a natural advantage in automatic driving, but for a long time in the future, automatic driving in China may still be mainly used for testing and special operations, and it is really possible to usher in full automatic driving, and it still needs to go through a lot of tests and time verification.