Whilst discussing the Tesla Autopilot program with Ketil Solvik-Olsen (Minister of Transport and Communication) in Norway last week, Tesla CEO Musk said that the probability of an accident happening is about 50% lower when the system is activated. This is based on early data collected from the Autopilot program, Tesla’s semi-autonomous driving system.

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Tesla Autopilot Reduces Accidents By 50% Says Elon Musk
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Whilst discussing the Tesla Autopilot program with Ketil Solvik­Olsen (Minister of Transport and
Communication) in Norway last week, Tesla CEO Musk said that the probability of an accident
happening is about 50% lower when the system is activated. This is based on early data
collected from the Autopilot program, Tesla’s semi­autonomous driving system.
Here are Musk’s exact words: “The probability of having an accident is 50% lower if you have
Autopilot on. Even with our first version. So we can see basically what’s the average number of
kilometers to an accident – accident defined by airbag deployment. Even with this early version,
it’s almost twice as good as a person.”
In this YouTube video a driver with Tesla's Autopilot engaged swerves the car as a swingarm
boom mounted truck drifts into his lane to save him from a possible collision.
He is referring to the first generation of the Autopilot as he expects the second generation,
which should be fully autonomous, to be significantly safer as it will need to be in order to be
made legal by regulators. “I think it’s going to be important in term of satisfying regulators and
the public to show statistically with a large amount of data – with billions of kilometers of driving
– to say that the safety level is definitively better, by a meaningful margin, if it’s autonomous
versus non­autonomous.” While Tesla is far from getting to billions of kilometers of data, the
automaker confirmed earlier this month that Tesla owners have already driven over 47 million
miles (75 million km) on Autopilot since officially launching the feature in October 2015. The
data is increasing exponentially as Tesla’s fleet is growing by tens of thousands of vehicles

2. every quarter. Musk expects Tesla’s fully autonomous Autopilot system to be ready within the
next two years. While the technology should be ready by then, Musk doesn’t know exactly how
long the regulatory process will take, but he is confident the data should convince them,
especially since the early data from the first generation Autopilot is encouraging.What do you
think is the world ready for fully autonomous autopilot cars on our highways? ​Original article
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April 26, 2016 at 01:32PM