Notices by E.W. Niedermeyer (niedermeyer@sfba.social)

For years, Tesla and its supporters have waved away detailed investigations tying Autopilot's design to multiple deaths, claiming that the safety benefits outweighed them.

Now, finally, we have published academic work proving that Autopilot has no safety benefits, when you adjust the numbers for road type and driver age. In fact crashes appear to be 11% higher with Autopilot!

Huge thanks to Noah Goodall of the Virginia Transportation Research Council for this work!

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19439962.2023.2178566?journalCode=utss20