Monday, January 17, 2022

Teslas are very safe

 From a twitter thread by Prof Ray Wills.  

I'm just using two charts, but the whole thread is interesting.


Note the inverted scale. 
This is not deaths per million miles, but million miles per death.
In other words, Teslas on autopilot are 10 times safer than the general car fleet.
 

The other chart I chose, which is very interesting, but entirely logical (Ozzie data):

The reason deaths at speed limits of 110 kph are less than those at 100 kph,
 is because there are only a few places where 110 kph is permitted, 


As Prof Wills points out lower in the thread, we choose to live with these fatalities:

EU road safety stats:

  • 22800 deaths in EU
  • 50% road deaths are pedestrians, cyclists or motorcyclists
  • 20% road deaths (4628) pedestrians killed by cars
  • 70% pedestrians killed by cars


0.88% deaths from bicycle striking a pedestrian  






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