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Originally Posted by peter12
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It was 132 million miles until the first death, that does not necessarily mean a rate of 1 death per 132 million miles, with a sample size of 1 the true rate could be 1 death per 50 million miles or 1 death per 1 billion miles or more who knows.
From the sounds of it the semi driver was "at fault" for attempting to cross the highway unsafely, however, it was a 100% complete failure of the autopilot system to not recognize this and apply the brakes to avoid the accident because to be blunt, that's the whole point of the system.
The good news stemming from this accident and IMO the big thing that sets automated driving apart from human driving is a small army of Tesla engineers are going to rip apart the car find out why it happened and figure out how to make sure it won't happen again and push it out to all cars on the road. Whereas we humans are just as likely to make the same stupid mistakes over and over, like say pulling out across the highway when it's not safe to do so.