{"id":110741,"date":"2020-08-01T20:09:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T03:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/tesla-autopilot-accidents-1-out-of-4530000-miles-us-average-1-out-of-479000-miles"},"modified":"2020-08-01T20:09:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T03:09:18","slug":"tesla-autopilot-accidents-1-out-of-4530000-miles-us-average-1-out-of-479000-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/tesla-autopilot-accidents-1-out-of-4530000-miles-us-average-1-out-of-479000-miles","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Autopilot Accidents: 1 out of 4,530,000 Miles; US Average: 1 out of 479,000 Miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-autopilot-accidents-1-out-of-4530000-miles-us-average-1-out-of-479000-miles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla has released its quarterly \u201cTesla Vehicle Safety Report.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2019\/08\/25\/4-reasons-why-we-bought-a-tesla-model-3\/\">One of the top reasons<\/a> \u2014 if not the #1 reason \u2014 I bought a Tesla Model 3 last was because of its record-setting safety rating, so I\u2019m always interested in seeing new stats on this topic.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-autopilot-accidents-1-out-of-4530000-miles-us-average-1-out-of-479000-miles3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-autopilot-accidents-1-out-of-4530000-miles-us-average-1-out-of-479000-miles3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2201\"   ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second quarter of 2020 saw a <em>slightly<\/em> worse result for Tesla than the first quarter in terms of accidents per million miles driven with Tesla Autopilot engaged (see graph below), but keep in mind that the first quarter had a record result. Additionally, the difference was so small that it was probably not statistically significant. On the other hand, Tesla\u2019s Q2 figure was far better than the US average \u2014 about 10 times better with Autopilot engaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla has released its quarterly \u201cTesla Vehicle Safety Report.\u201d One of the top reasons \u2014 if not the #1 reason \u2014 I bought a Tesla Model 3 last was because of its record-setting safety rating, so I\u2019m always interested in seeing new stats on this topic. The second quarter of 2020 saw a slightly worse [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}