Tesla autopilot reduces crash rate by 50%

The autopilot system in the Tesla car has already saved one driver from the accident in the Tesla Model S when it was clipped by a truck from a nearby lane. The computer system managed to slow down and dodge. This is not the only case. There are several videos from car recorders of happy Tesla owners on YouTube that were lucky to avoid accidents.

Ilon Mask himself says that the autopilot function reduces the probability of an accident by 50%.

Ilon Musk made such a comment at a Norwegian conference during a conversation with the Minister of Transport of Norway .
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Ilon Mask said that this is the conclusion obtained after analyzing the first data collected from Tesla Model S car computers equipped with autopilot function. “The probability of an accident is reduced by 50% when the autopilot function is on,” he noted. - Even with our first version. So we can see how many kilometers the car passes on average before the first accident, which is determined by the airbags that have been triggered. Even with this first version, almost twice as many kilometers are here. ”

By the words of Ilona Mask, it should be added that in fact the autopilot is turned on on the safest stretches of the path - for example, on a highway without intersections. So the statistics named is a little bow. Although autopilot does increase road safety, it's hard to argue with that.

The current system of automatic driving Ilon Musk calls "semi-automatic." In the future, the second version of the autopilot will be released - fully autonomous, much safer, but it will require legal approval from regulators. To do this, the authorities need to provide statistics in the billions of kilometers that hit cars with autopilot on.

Since the autopilot was released in October 2015, Tesla cars hit 75 million km in this mode, but this figure grows exponentially as new cars are sold (Tesla sells tens of thousands of cars every quarter) and upgrades old ones.

Ilon Musk hopes that a fully autonomous autopilot will be released within two years .