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In 2017, the feds said Tesla Autopilot cut crashes 40%–that was bogus (2019)
Small firm gets Tesla crash data after 2-year legal battle with NHTSA, finds flawed study.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has egg on its face after a small research and consulting firm called Quality Control Systems produced a devastating critique of a 2017 agency report finding that Tesla's Autopilot reduced crashes by 40 percent. When QCS director Randy Whitfield ran the numbers for these vehicles, he found that the rate of crashes per mile increased by 59 percent after Tesla enabled the Autosteer technology. But as far as we know, Tesla hasn't provided recent crash data to independent experts who might be able to control for these kinds of factors to evaluate Autopilot's safety in a rigorous way.
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