I wonder if AP is really 2x safer as Musk claims. Highway driving is already significantly safer per mile than local roads,
> The grim statistics provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also show that drivers on rural roads die at a rate 2.5 times higher per mile traveled than on urban highways. Urban drivers travel twice as many miles but suffer close to half the fatal accidents. [1]
Could this explain away Musk's AP safety claims, given that it's mostly used on highways?
I would assume that Musk's claim was comparing manually driven Teslas on the highway with AP Teslas on the highway. But I don't think there's a way to verify.
> The grim statistics provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also show that drivers on rural roads die at a rate 2.5 times higher per mile traveled than on urban highways. Urban drivers travel twice as many miles but suffer close to half the fatal accidents. [1]
Could this explain away Musk's AP safety claims, given that it's mostly used on highways?
[1] https://www.npr.org/2009/11/29/120716625/the-deadliest-roads...