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US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash

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410 points jjulius | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 16:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.23s | source
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graeme ◴[19 Oct 24 01:36 UTC] No.41884966[source]▶
Will the review assess overall mortality of the vehicles compared to similar cars, and overall mortality while FSD is in use?
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akira2501 ◴[19 Oct 24 03:22 UTC] No.41885407[source]▶
Fatalities per passenger mile driven is the only statistic that would matter. I actually doubt this figure differs much, either way, from the overall fleet of vehicles.

This is because "inattentive driving" is _rarely_ the cause of fatalities on the road. The winner there is, and probably always will be, Alcohol.

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porphyra ◴[19 Oct 24 03:45 UTC] No.41885496[source]▶
Distracted driving cost 3308 lives in 2022 [1].

Alcohol is at 13384 in 2021 [2].

Although you're right that alcohol does claim more lives, distracted driving is still highly dangerous and isn't all that rare.

[1] https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving

[2] https://www.nhtsa.gov/book/countermeasures-that-work/alcohol...

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1. akira2501 ◴[19 Oct 24 04:15 UTC] No.41885593[source]▶
They do a disservice by not further breaking down distracted driving by age. Once you see it that way it's hard to accept that distracted driving on it's own is the appropriate target.

Anyways.. NHTSA publishes the FARS. This is the definitive source if you want to understand the demographics of fatalities in the USA.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-report...