Given that 2018, Tesla has actually been attempting to create a criteria for its enhancement in Autopilot security by launching a quarterly report that compares the number of miles per accident on Autopilot versus off Autopilot.
Tesla has launched its Q2 2020 security report showing a strong year-over-year improvement in Autopilot accidents, but a little regression quarter-over-quarter.
Today, Tesla launched its report for the last quarter:
With the enhancements, its important to remember that Teslas Autopilot and FSD functions are currently only motorist help features and chauffeurs need to constantly remain alert and all set to take control at all times.
Its still helpful to compare the Autopilot mileage per accident year-over-year. The data is far from best, however its the best we have for now.
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Thats a substantial enhancement in simply a year.
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For those driving without Autopilot however with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.27 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety functions, we signed up one accident for every 1.56 million miles driven.
If they ever desire to persuade the authority to enable them to release their complete self-driving system, Tesla is going to need a lot of more data.
In contrast, Tesla had an accident on Autopilot every 3.27 million miles in Q2 2019.
Its a slight increase accident over last quarter when Tesla has one mishap on Autopilot for every 4.68 million miles.
Electreks Take
Since Autopilot is currently mostly used on highways where its much easier to collect a lot of mileage without accidents and non-Autopilot mileage is coming from city driving, where mishaps are more most likely, the two datasets can not truly be compared.
Of note, average mileage has been gradually going up in Q2 after a sharp decline at the end of Q1 due to lockdown orders in the middle of the pandemic.
In the 2nd quarter, we signed up one accident for every 4.53 million miles driven in which chauffeurs had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety functions, we registered one accident for every 2.27 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety functions, we registered one accident for every 1.56 million miles driven.
