Tesla stopped reporting its Autopilot safety numbers online. Why?

[DBoon]

Like clockwork, Tesla reported Autopilot safety statistics, once every quarter, starting in 2018. Last year, those reports ceased.

Around the same time, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the nation’s top auto safety regulator, began demanding crash reports from automakers that sell so-called advanced driver assistance systems such as Autopilot. It began releasing those numbers in June. And those numbers don’t look good for Autopilot.

Tesla won’t say why it stopped reporting its safety statistics, which measure crash rates per miles driven. The company employs no media relations department. A tweet sent to Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk inviting his comments went unanswered.

Tesla critics are happy to speak up about the situation, however. Taylor Ogan, chief executive at fund management firm Snow Bull Capital, held a Twitter Spaces event Thursday to run through his own interpretation of Tesla safety numbers. He thinks he knows why the company ceased reporting its safety record: “Because it’s gotten a lot worse.”

Also on Thursday, NHTSA announced it had added two more crashes to the dozens of automated-driving Tesla incidents that it’s already investigating. One involved eight vehicles, including a Tesla Model S, on the San Francisco Bay Bridge on Thanksgiving Day.Through Friday’s close, Tesla stock has lost 65% of its value this year.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-27/tesla-stopped-reporting-autopilot-safety-statistics-online

[dalton99a]

1. Elon: "Transparency means you don't need to know. Shut up and drive"

You don't want to know

[orthoclad]

2. Human subject experiments

Academics must jump through numerous hoops in order to use human subjects in experiments, even questionnaires.

But corporations can use the public roads and streets as well as uninformed, unconsenting humans as experimental plots to test and "train" their AI code and iffy lethal products.

Money talks.

[dutch777]

3. When do we just pass a law that says a focused driver must be actively in control of a car always?

So dumb to even play this game. And why? So Eloon can sell a million Tesla's to taxi companies and Uber. Stupid.

[CentralMass]

5. I agree. It just a stupid game

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Tesla at $113 a share today

Insane. Market cap has gone from over $1T to $350B in about a year.

[BSdetect]

6. You need to check out the reasons why here:

Around minute .40

Interesting how these stories get slanted.