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The Rand article says the most lives can be saved if Autopilot was rolled out after it was 10% better than humans. However, we won’t have statistical confidence until billions of miles are driven. If we think this problem can be solved, we have to take a risk and go for it.


Why do you think only 10 million miles have been driven with Autopilot? This article says a billion+ miles have been driven with Autopilot cars: https://electrek.co/2016/11/13/tesla-autopilot-billion-miles...


Autopilot isn’t self driving. It’s glorfied cruise control.

And Tesla’s had two autopilot fatalities. And Uber had one.


Does the Uber one count in the same statistical category since it was a pedestrian? I thought those were there own category?


>The actual number of miles driven with the Autopilot active is closer to 300 million miles at this point.


I'm talking about fully autonomous vehicles (level 4/5).


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