How bad is Tesla's autonomous driving?
In its security report for the fourth quarter of 2021, Tesla listed a completely different data report, which made people re-understand Tesla.
"With Autopilot, there is only one traffic accident on average per 6.94 million kilometers, while NHTSA data in the United States shows that there is an accident on average every 780,000 kilometers."
Therefore, Tesla uses "8.9 times more secure" to explain how safe Tesla products equipped with Autopilot are.
Obviously, this statement is based on Tesla's own basis to lobby the market, because this is not enough to inspire users to trust and recognize Tesla.
But Tesla provided another piece of data.
In the fourth quarter of 2018, there was an accident every 2.91 million miles, in the fourth quarter of 2019, there was an accident every 3.07 million kilometers, the figure for 2020 was 3.54 million miles, and the most recent statistic was 4.31 million miles.
That is to say, every year Tesla's self-driving technology is growing and becoming more mature.
As of now, this data summary is tesla's Autopilot has 3 billion kilometers of data statistics, in other words, the Tesla sedan equipped with Autopilot has run around the earth nearly 80,000 times.
When we question Tesla's autopilot assist system, the first thing we should think about is whether Tesla's autopilot is really bad.
There are two criteria for poor evaluation, one is the cost criterion and the other is technical performance.
Tesla sold in the domestic market supports a certain degree of automatic driving assistance, such as the car function is not optional, the reliability of this function has been very perfect, has been able to isolate most of the dangers in the vehicle a few meters away.
There are two types of paid-for-purchase autonomous driving assistance, one is 32,000 yuan semi-automatic, and the other is the so-called full version in China, priced at 64,000 yuan.
The most people in the market buy or 32,000 yuan of semi-automatic, it must be able to do in accordance with the navigation of automatic driving, automatic lane change, free parking, and intelligent summoning, rational analysis of the current pricing, then 32,000 yuan is not high.
The other is technology.
Tesla's data center has a data statistical model of 3 billion, the biggest test point of automatic assisted driving is whether the enterprise can run enough miles, with the owner's driving data, cloud space data simulation, its own test data summary of the synthesis of the large database, must be the biggest value point.
Many companies have good automatic driving auxiliary hardware configuration, but the algorithm can not keep up, resulting in problems in recognition, computer judgment, etc., the key is that the cumulative number of kilometers running is insufficient, in other words, the computer experience is insufficient.
Only if you run enough, the identified obstacles, road conditions and crisis situations are more and richer, the possibility of misjudgment will be minimal, and there are not many self-driving companies that do, upgrade, test and statistical data in the real sense, and Tesla's 3 billion kilometers is the ceiling.
Automatic driving is actually an auxiliary driving configuration, still need the joint management of people + vehicles to achieve a better safety factor, this era of automation has become an unstoppable direction of technological development, which means that all enterprises have to cross this threshold.
That is to say, in the new field, if you want to truly surpass Tesla in the sense, you still need to use actions to shorten the gap.