On January 23, Tesla said in its vehicle safety report for the fourth quarter of 2021 that with autopilot and other safety features activated, Tesla's cars have an average of one accident recorded every 6.94 million kilometers, neither turning on Autopilot nor turning off active safety, with an average of one accident per 2.56 million kilometers.
Tesla believes that autonomous driving is 8.9 times more reliable than humans. This conclusion is based on the above statistics, compared with one traffic accident per 779,000 kilometers of NHTSA in the United States in the fourth quarter of 2021. There are all kinds of models on the road, the safety factor is not the same, Tesla is so rough to calculate the comparison, in Xiao Lei's view, it is more like to advocate how powerful his car is.
Automatic driving statistics do not include FSD, and Autopilot is essentially an assist-based driving function, at best only L2 level, Tesla officials still call it "automatic driving", easy to let consumers misunderstand, do not know whether it is overconfident or joking.
At this stage, the mainstream automatic driving assistance solution is still L2 level, although companies are constantly promoting L3, L4 or higher level of autonomous driving, but there is still a long time to go before large-scale use. Companies themselves know that if autonomous driving is not 100% safe, it is still difficult to get a hand, after all, not so many people are willing to give the control of the car to the computer.
Lidar, image sensors and high-precision maps work together to make them a relatively highly recognized and relatively safe autonomous driving solution. Pure vision can meet the scene is always very limited, encounter poor visibility of the scene, you must rely on radar and other sensors to ensure safety.
Tesla for the sake of cost, completely abandoned the radar to take the pure visual route, although there are good results, but there is always a "rollover", not to mention the official FSD handed over to the user to test, neither high safety, but also irresponsible to the owner. However, Xiao Lei still found that many overseas Tesla owners like to joke with their lives, in order to highlight the power of automatic driving, directly leave the steering wheel with both hands to "hang up", and some people even put pets in the driving seat.
As the world's largest electric vehicle company, Tesla's cars are not only world-renowned, but also sales are only high. The car is one of the most important travel tools for people, safety and reliability is the most can not be ignored by car companies, Xiao Lei hopes that Tesla will put more thoughts on the product, less bragging is better.