atw: Re: OT I hate it when I am this right

  • From: Christine Kent <cmkentau@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 16:13:33 +1000

It doesn't matter much. The cars are new. Wait till they start aging.

On Friday, 1 July 2016, Stuart Burnfield <slb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

“This is the first known fatality in just over 130 million miles (209
million kilometers)
where Autopilot was activated,” the company said.

“Among all vehicles in the US, there is a fatality every 94 million
miles.
Worldwide, there is a fatality approximately every 60 million miles,” it
said.

Nice slippery wording there. It *almost *sounds as though Autopilot is
already safer than human drivers in equivalent conditions. Until you read
what it says.

Well played, soulless damage-control PR flack!

--- Stuart


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http://www.breitbart.com/news/tesla-driver-killed-on-autopilot-mode-probe-opened/

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