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In response to "this doesn't quite address what mafic said and, in part, is what I was getting at below - not everyone is going to think they need to pre-plan/learn " by b.

Given the 130 million miles driven with Auto Pilot enabled and just 1 fatality, there isn't an issue beyond

Posted by TWuG Jul 6 '16, 20:01

what Bery posted below.

That 130 million miles per fatality is about 40 million miles better than the national average for fatalities.

That's a bit of apples/oranges since the Tesla number is just Auto Pilot miles and the national average is all miles.

This is going to be like the fires. People freaked, then it went away as people realized that fires were less common in Teslas than in gas vehicles.

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the point is to do everything possible to make sure that 1 death stands alone, because it's bad enough on its own. -- nm - b. Jul 6, 20:06 1
- I know they aren't perfect. But they are better than human drivers. And that single fatality is looking - TWuG Jul 6, 20:15

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Given the 130 million miles driven with Auto Pilot enabled and just 1 fatality, there isn't an issue beyond

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