Elon Musk owns Committed that what he called the work of the government efficiency department (threshold) would be “the greatest transparency”. Tesla and SpaceX CEOs and now White House advisers have repeatedly said Doge’s website proved it. There, the group kept a list of cuts to grants and budgets, which is a statistics of its work.
But in recent weeks, The New York Times reported that Duger not only posted a major mistake on the website — for example, saving $8 billion in $8 million while canceling the contract, having paid $2.5 million, but also working hard to get the details of these errors removed from the website.
For road safety researchers who have been paying attention to Musk for many years, the method of committing the crime is familiar. Doge “take out some numbers, they smell bad, they turn around,” said Noah Goodall, an independent transport researcher. “That screaming Tesla. You’ll feel they’re not really interested in the facts.”
Goodall and others have been following Tesla’s autopilot and full autopilot capabilities for nearly a decade, with advanced driver assistance systems designed to make driving less stressful and safer. Researchers claim that Tesla has released security statistics without proper context over the years. Promotes numbers that are impossible to verify by external experts; touting favorable security statistics that have been proven misleading; and even altering the published security statistics. These numbers are so inconsistent that Tesla’s fully autonomous driving fans are crowdsourced performance data themselves.
Rather than publishing public data, “What we have are these small pieces that seem really suspicious when researchers study them in context,” said Bryant Walker Smith, law professor and engineer who studies self-driving cars at the University of South Carolina.
Government assisted hoopsie
Tesla’s first and most public digital mix was in 2018, when it released its first autonomous driving safety data after the first known death of a driver using Autopilot. The researchers immediately pointed out that while these numbers seem to indicate that drivers using autopilot are much less likely to crash than other Americans on the road, these numbers lack critical environments.
At the time, Autopilot incorporated adaptive cruise control, which maintained a fixed distance between Tesla and the vehicle in front of the vehicle and assisted in the direction of the vehicle in front of it, which kept the car as a centered lane marker. However, the comparison cannot control the type of car (the luxury car, the only Tesla at that time, is less likely to collapse than others), the people driving the car (the Tesla owner is more likely to be rich and age-old, so it is unlikely to collapse), or on the road to Tesla, especially on the route of Autopilot (automatic action) (automatic action) (automatic driving path) (automatic driving path) (automatic driving path), encounter internal routes, traveling around the country, and encountering internal routes, and encountering internal routes, and encountering internal routes, and encountering internal routes, and encountering internal routes, and encountering external routes. ).
The chaos didn’t stop there. In response to the fatal crash of autonomous driving, Tesla Have done it Some safety numbers are handed over to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the U.S. road safety regulator. Using these figures, NHTSA released a report showing that autopilot caused a 40% reduction in crashes. Tesla has promoted favorable statistics, even citing it when it died while using autonomous driving in 2018.
