Disengagements vs crashing is a meaningless comparison, these are in the middle of testing not deployed systems. We have real world data on self driving cars and per mile they have statistically saved lives already and are only improving with time.
Still if you want a real comparison my parked cars have been hit 5 times, most of which does not show up on accident data, because I only reported one of those the rest caused minor damage. Similarly I know of multiple cases of people driving off the road and not reporting anything because they did not cause significant damage. I even know of several cases of road accidents not being reported due to minor damage.
PS: Tesla's self driving cars get a lot of flack for not being ready but they have dramatically lower accident rates than non self driving Tesla's.
What self driving data do you mean? There are no self driving cars in deployment right now. There are various semi-autonomous safety features that _REQUIRE_ full attention from the driver.
You don't actually need to pay attention in a Tesla when it's on the road. It's closer to a dead man switch on a train than a real test of attention. Except you don't even need to keep your hands on the wheel as it's really easy to fool.
LOL, all I can say to this, is that perhaps you should read your Tesla manual. I sincerely wish you luck with your driving, just watch out for fire trucks parked in the emergency lane...
Now there poor attempt at a Tu Quoque fallacy if I ever saw one. It's both incorrect and meaningless.
Some people may take that view, but I don't. It's not great, but good enough for deployment and easily qualifies as autopilot.
Really, aircraft is autopilot not designed to be used without pilots. Yet, it's still good enough to both be used significantly more than 50% of the time on commercial flights and increase overall safety. So even a highway only car autopilots that's plenty to be useful. Now, if you mean it's not designed to be level 4 automation then sure, it's got a steering wheel unlike several buses in production.
What an ungracious way to admit you're wrong. I am simply pointing out 'paying attention' is like keeping tires properly inflated, it's something many people are not going to do and thus part of real world data.
> Tesla's self driving cars get a lot of flack for not being ready but they have dramatically lower accident rates than non self driving Tesla's
I'm interested in seeing the stats for this if you have them, because I've previously looked and been unable to find anything to back this up.
To be properly comparable, we'd need to be comparing human drivers in the same situations in which people use autopilot - i.e. less challenging situations like highway driving.
Still if you want a real comparison my parked cars have been hit 5 times, most of which does not show up on accident data, because I only reported one of those the rest caused minor damage. Similarly I know of multiple cases of people driving off the road and not reporting anything because they did not cause significant damage. I even know of several cases of road accidents not being reported due to minor damage.
PS: Tesla's self driving cars get a lot of flack for not being ready but they have dramatically lower accident rates than non self driving Tesla's.